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Silvisaurus
Taxonomy
Silvisaurus was named by Eaton (1960). It was considered monophyletic by Vickaryous et al. (2004).
It was assigned to Panoplosaurinae by Sereno (1986); to Nodosauroidea by Bakker (1988); to Sauropeltinae by Ford (2000); and to Nodosauridae by Eaton (1960), Kuhn (1964), Romer (1966), Coombs (1978), Coombs (1978), Galton (1983), Russell (1984), Tumanova (1987), Carroll (1988), Weishampel et al. (1991), Coombs and Deméré (1996), Carpenter and Kirkland (1998), Vickaryous et al. (2001), Carpenter (2001), Barrett (2001), Pereda Suberbiola and Galton (2001), Vickaryous et al. (2004), Lü et al. (2007), Lü et al. (2007), Carpenter et al. (2008), Osi and Makádi (2009) and Parsons and Parsons (2009).
It was assigned to Panoplosaurinae by Sereno (1986); to Nodosauroidea by Bakker (1988); to Sauropeltinae by Ford (2000); and to Nodosauridae by Eaton (1960), Kuhn (1964), Romer (1966), Coombs (1978), Coombs (1978), Galton (1983), Russell (1984), Tumanova (1987), Carroll (1988), Weishampel et al. (1991), Coombs and Deméré (1996), Carpenter and Kirkland (1998), Vickaryous et al. (2001), Carpenter (2001), Barrett (2001), Pereda Suberbiola and Galton (2001), Vickaryous et al. (2004), Lü et al. (2007), Lü et al. (2007), Carpenter et al. (2008), Osi and Makádi (2009) and Parsons and Parsons (2009).
Species
Sister genera
Aletopelta, Animantarx, Antarctopelta, Edmontonia (syn. Denversaurus, Chassternbergia), Glyptodontopelta, Hungarosaurus, Liaoningosaurus, Niobrarasaurus, Nodosaurus, Panoplosaurus, Pawpawsaurus, Peloroplites, Polacanthus (syn. Euacanthus), Sarcolestes, Sauropelta, Stegopelta, Struthiosaurus (syn. Leipsanosaurus, Pleuropeltus, Rhodanosaurus, Danubiosaurus, Crataeomus, Rhadinosaurus), Syngonosaurus (syn. Syngonosaurus macrocercus), Texasetes, Zhejiangosaurus, Zhongyuansaurus
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1960 | Silvisaurus Eaton, Jr. |
| 1964 | Silvisaurus Kuhn p. 51 |
| 1966 | Silvisaurus Romer p. 370 |
| 1978 | Silvisaurus Coombs, Jr. p. 144 |
| 1983 | Silvisaurus Galton p. 6 |
| 1984 | Silvisaurus Russell p. 24 |
| 1986 | Silvisaurus Sereno |
| 1987 | Silvisaurus Tumanova |
| 1988 | Silvisaurus Bakker p. 21 fig. 10 |
| 1988 | Silvisaurus Carroll |
| 1991 | Silvisaurus Weishampel et al. p. 209 |
| 1996 | Silvisaurus Coombs, Jr. and Deméré p. 319 |
| 1998 | Silvisaurus Carpenter and Kirkland p. 258 |
| 2000 | Silvisaurus Ford p. 175 |
| 2001 | Silvisaurus Barrett p. 41 |
| 2001 | Silvisaurus Carpenter p. 457 |
| 2001 | Silvisaurus Pereda Suberbiola and Galton p. 199 |
| 2001 | Silvisaurus Vickaryous et al. p. 1774 |
| 2004 | Silvisaurus Vickaryous et al. p. 365 |
| 2007 | Silvisaurus Lü et al. p. 889 fig. 1 |
| 2007 | Silvisaurus Lü et al. p. 349 |
| 2008 | Silvisaurus Carpenter et al. p. 1090 |
| 2009 | Silvisaurus Osi and Makádi p. 239 fig. 10 |
| 2009 | Silvisaurus Parsons and Parsons p. 736 fig. 18 |
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