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Arctosaurus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Clade
  
Archosauriformes

Scientific name
  
Arctosaurus osborni

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Reptilia

Clade
  
incertae sedis

Phylum
  
Chordata

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Similar
  
Arstanosaurus, Barsboldia, Aristosuchus, Neuquenraptor, Aublysodon

Arctosaurus (meaning "arctic lizard") is an extinct genus of reptile originally classified as a small reptile of unknown affinities, but was often classified as a sauropodomorph dinosaur in the years to follow. Although it has also been classified as a theropod, recent review finds that the similarities it shares with theropods are spread throughout several groups of Late Triassic reptiles, and so it cannot be assigned any more specifically than to Archosauriformes. Other authors have suggested trilophosaurian affinities. It is based on a neck vertebra that was found on Cameron Island, Nunavut, Canada, in Late Triassic-age rocks. Recently, new material of Arctosaurus osborni was unearthed in Canada.

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Arctosaurus Wikipedia