Tecovasaurus
Tecovasaurus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Reptiliomorpha |
Clade: | Amniota |
Genus: | †Tecovasaurus Hunt & Lucas, 1994 |
Type species | |
†Tecovasaurus murryi Hunt & Lucas, 1994
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Tecovasaurus (te-KOH-va-SAWR-us) is an
cynodonts such as Dadadon (shared presence of teeth with sub-triangular crowns, enlarged denticles, and thecodont tooth implantation), as an amniote of uncertain affinities (Kammerer et al., 2012; though "based on dissimilarities in gross morphology and geographic separation" the authors considered it more likely that the taxon is indeed an archosauriform rather than a traversodontid). It is named after the Tecovas Formation, in Texas and Arizona, which yielded the holotype
remains.
References
- Irmis, R.B., Parker, W.G., Nesbitt, S.J., and Liu, J. (2007). Early ornithischian dinosaurs: the Triassic record. Historical Biology 19(1):3-22. .
- Christian F. Kammerer; John J. Flynn; Lovasoa Ranivoharimanana & André R. Wyss (2012). "Ontogeny in the Malagasy Traversodontid Dadadon isaloi and a Reconsideration of its Phylogenetic Relationships". Fieldiana Life and Earth Sciences. 5: 112–125. S2CID 84651546.
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