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Pawpawsaurus
Taxonomy
Pawpawsaurus was named by Lee (1996). Its type is Pawpawsaurus campbelli. It was considered monophyletic by Vickaryous et al. (2004).
It was assigned to Polacanthinae by Blows (2001); and to Nodosauridae by Lee (1996), Carpenter and Kirkland (1998), Kirkland (1998), Ford (2000), Vickaryous et al. (2001), Carpenter (2001), Barrett (2001), Carpenter (2001), Pereda Suberbiola and Galton (2001), Ford and Kirkland (2001), Vickaryous et al. (2004), Vickaryous (2006), 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 Polacanthinae by Blows (2001); and to Nodosauridae by Lee (1996), Carpenter and Kirkland (1998), Kirkland (1998), Ford (2000), Vickaryous et al. (2001), Carpenter (2001), Barrett (2001), Carpenter (2001), Pereda Suberbiola and Galton (2001), Ford and Kirkland (2001), Vickaryous et al. (2004), Vickaryous (2006), Lü et al. (2007), Lü et al. (2007), Carpenter et al. (2008), Osi and Makádi (2009) and Parsons and Parsons (2009).
Species
P. campbelli (type species)
Sister genera
Aletopelta, Animantarx, Antarctopelta, Edmontonia (syn. Denversaurus, Chassternbergia), Glyptodontopelta, Hungarosaurus, Liaoningosaurus, Niobrarasaurus, Nodosaurus, Panoplosaurus, Peloroplites, Polacanthus (syn. Euacanthus), Sarcolestes, Sauropelta, Silvisaurus, 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 |
|---|---|
| 1996 | Pawpawsaurus Lee |
| 1998 | Pawpawsaurus Carpenter and Kirkland p. 253 |
| 1998 | Pawpawsaurus Kirkland p. 273 fig. 3 |
| 2000 | Pawpawsaurus Ford p. 175 |
| 2001 | Pawpawsaurus Barrett p. 41 |
| 2001 | Pawpawsaurus Blows p. 377 |
| 2001 | Pawpawsaurus Carpenter p. 171 |
| 2001 | Pawpawsaurus Ford and Kirkland p. 257 |
| 2001 | Pawpawsaurus Pereda Suberbiola and Galton p. 200 |
| 2001 | Pawpawsaurus Vickaryous et al. p. 1774 |
| 2004 | Pawpawsaurus Vickaryous et al. p. 365 |
| 2006 | Pawpawsaurus Vickaryous p. 1012 |
| 2007 | Pawpawsaurus Lü et al. p. 889 fig. 1 |
| 2007 | Pawpawsaurus Lü et al. p. 349 |
| 2008 | Pawpawsaurus Carpenter et al. p. 1091 |
| 2009 | Pawpawsaurus Osi and Makádi p. 239 fig. 10 |
| 2009 | Pawpawsaurus Parsons and Parsons p. 736 fig. 18 |
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