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Tasmaniosaurus, the Glossary

Tasmaniosaurus ('lizard from Tasmania', although this genus is not a true lizard) is an extinct genus of archosauromorph reptile known from the Knocklofty Formation (Early Triassic) of West Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.^[1]

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Archosauromorphs
Early Triassic reptiles
Mesozoic reptiles of Australia
Paleontology in Tasmania
Triassic Australia

Aetosaur

Aetosaurs are heavily armored reptiles belonging to the extinct order Aetosauria (from Greek, ἀετός (aetos, "eagle") and σαυρος (sauros, "lizard")).

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Amphibian

Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniotic, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia.

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Antorbital fenestra

An antorbital fenestra (plural: fenestrae) is an opening in the skull that is in front of the eye sockets.

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Archosaur

Archosauria or archosaurs is a clade of diapsid sauropsid tetrapods, with birds and crocodilians being the only extant representatives.

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Archosauriformes

Archosauriformes (Greek for 'ruling lizards', and Latin for 'form') is a clade of diapsid reptiles encompassing archosaurs and some of their close relatives.

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Archosauromorpha

Archosauromorpha (Greek for "ruling lizard forms") is a clade of diapsid reptiles containing all reptiles more closely related to archosaurs (such as crocodilians and dinosaurs, including birds) rather than lepidosaurs (such as tuataras, lizards, and snakes). Tasmaniosaurus and Archosauromorpha are archosauromorphs.

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Archosaurus

Archosaurus (meaning "ruling lizard") is an extinct genus of carnivorous proterosuchid archosauriform reptile. Tasmaniosaurus and Archosaurus are prehistoric reptile genera.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Avemetatarsalia (meaning "bird metatarsals") is a clade of diapsid reptiles containing all archosaurs more closely related to birds than to crocodilians.

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Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Brain

The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals.

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Cerebellum

The cerebellum (cerebella or cerebellums; Latin for "little brain") is a major feature of the hindbrain of all vertebrates.

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Charles Lewis Camp

Charles Lewis Camp (March 12, 1893 – August 14, 1975) was an American palaeontologist and zoologist, working from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Cladistics

Cladistics is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups ("clades") based on hypotheses of most recent common ancestry.

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Crocodilia

Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both) is an order of semiaquatic, predatory reptiles known as crocodilians.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Early Triassic

The Early Triassic is the first of three epochs of the Triassic Period of the geologic timescale.

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Endocast

An endocast is the internal cast of a hollow object, often referring to the cranial vault in the study of brain development in humans and other organisms.

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Erythrosuchidae

Erythrosuchidae (meaning "red crocodiles" in Greek) are a family of large basal archosauriform carnivores that lived from the later Early Triassic (Olenekian) to the early Middle Triassic (Anisian).

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Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Femur

The femur (femurs or femora), or thigh bone is the only bone in the thigh.

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Fibula

The fibula (fibulae or fibulas) or calf bone is a leg bone on the lateral side of the tibia, to which it is connected above and below.

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Frontal bone

In the human skull, the frontal bone or sincipital bone is a unpaired bone which consists of two portions.

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Gastralia

Gastralia (gastralium) are dermal bones found in the ventral body wall of modern crocodilians and tuatara, and many prehistoric tetrapods.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Haemal arch

A haemal arch, also known as a chevron, is a bony arch on the ventral side of a tail vertebra of a vertebrate.

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Holotype

A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described.

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Interclavicle

An interclavicle is a bone which, in most tetrapods, is located between the clavicles.

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Interparietal bone

An interparietal bone (os interparietale or Inca bone or os inca var.) is a dermal bone situated between the parietal and supraoccipital.

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Knocklofty Formation

The Knocklofty Formation is an Early Triassic geologic formation from southern Tasmania, Australia, belonging to the Induan stage. Tasmaniosaurus and Knocklofty Formation are paleontology in Tasmania.

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Lepidosauria

The Lepidosauria (from Greek meaning scaled lizards) is a subclass or superorder of reptiles, containing the orders Squamata and Rhynchocephalia.

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Lizard

Lizard is the common name used for all squamate reptiles other than snakes (and to a lesser extent amphisbaenians), encompassing over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.

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Nasal bone

The nasal bones are two small oblong bones, varying in size and form in different individuals; they are placed side by side at the middle and upper part of the face and by their junction, form the bridge of the upper one third of the nose.

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Nomen nudum

In taxonomy, a nomen nudum ('naked name'; plural nomina nuda) is a designation which looks exactly like a scientific name of an organism, and may have originally been intended to be one, but it has not been published with an adequate description.

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Olfactory bulb

The olfactory bulb (Latin: bulbus olfactorius) is a neural structure of the vertebrate forebrain involved in olfaction, the sense of smell.

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Olfactory tract

The olfactory peduncle (olfactory tract, olfactory stalk) is a bilateral bundle of afferent nerve fibers from the mitral and tufted cells of the olfactory bulb that connects to several target regions in the brain, including the piriform cortex, amygdala, and entorhinal cortex.

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Parietal bone

The parietal bones are two bones in the skull which, when joined at a fibrous joint known as a cranial suture, form the sides and roof of the neurocranium.

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Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms.

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Polyphyly

A polyphyletic group is an assemblage that includes organisms with mixed evolutionary origin but does not include their most recent common ancestor.

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Postorbital bone

The postorbital is one of the bones in vertebrate skulls which forms a portion of the dermal skull roof and, sometimes, a ring about the orbit.

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Prolacerta

Prolacerta is a genus of archosauromorph from the lower Triassic of South Africa and Antarctica. Tasmaniosaurus and Prolacerta are archosauromorphs and prehistoric reptile genera.

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Proterosuchidae

Proterosuchidae is an early family of basal archosauriforms whose fossils are known from the Late Permian and the Early Triassic.

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Proterosuchus

Proterosuchus is an extinct genus of archosauriform reptiles that lived during the Early Triassic. Tasmaniosaurus and Proterosuchus are prehistoric reptile genera.

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Protorosaurus

Protorosaurus (from πρότερος, 'earlier' and σαῦρος, 'lizard') is an extinct genus of reptile. Tasmaniosaurus and Protorosaurus are archosauromorphs and prehistoric reptile genera.

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Pseudosuchia

Pseudosuchia (from ψεύδος (pseudos), "false" and σούχος (souchos), "crocodile") is one of two major divisions of Archosauria, including living crocodilians and all archosaurs more closely related to crocodilians than to birds.

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Pterosaur

Pterosaurs (from Greek pteron and sauros, meaning "wing lizard") are an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order Pterosauria.

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Pterygoid bone

The pterygoid is a paired bone forming part of the palate of many vertebrates, behind the palatine bones.

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Rauisuchidae

Rauisuchidae is a group of large (up to) predatory Triassic archosaurs.

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Richard A. Thulborn

Richard Anthony (Tony) Thulborn is a British paleontologist.

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Sister group

In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.

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Snake

Snakes are elongated, limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.

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Species description

A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (palawa kani: lutruwita) is an island state of Australia.

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Temnospondyli

Temnospondyli (from Greek τέμνειν, temnein 'to cut' and σπόνδυλος, spondylos 'vertebra') or temnospondyls is a diverse ancient order of small to giant tetrapods—often considered primitive amphibians—that flourished worldwide during the Carboniferous, Permian and Triassic periods, with fossils being found on every continent.

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Thecodont dentition

Thecodont dentition is a morphological arrangement in which the base of the tooth is completely enclosed in a deep socket of bone, as seen in crocodilians, dinosaurs and mammals, and opposed to acrodont and pleurodont dentition seen in squamate reptiles.

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Tibia

The tibia (tibiae or tibias), also known as the shinbone or shankbone, is the larger, stronger, and anterior (frontal) of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates (the other being the fibula, behind and to the outside of the tibia); it connects the knee with the ankle.

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Tuatara

The tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) is a species of reptile endemic to New Zealand.

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Type species

In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmaniosaurus

Also known as Tasmaniosaurus triassicus.

, Sister group, Snake, Species description, Tasmania, Temnospondyli, Thecodont dentition, Tibia, Tuatara, Type species, University of Tasmania, Vertebra, Vomeronasal organ, West Hobart, Tasmania.

Tasmaniosaurus, the Glossary

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See also

Archosauromorphs

Early Triassic reptiles

Mesozoic reptiles of Australia

Paleontology in Tasmania

Triassic Australia

References