Caseosaurus Hunt, Lucas, Heckert, Sullivan & Lockley, 1998

Caseosaurus Hunt, Lucas, Heckert, Sullivan & Lockley, 1998 (Geobios (Lyon) 31 (4): 530 NcZ) "Case's lizard"
KAY-so-SAWR-us (or KAY-see-o-SAWR-us) (Case + Gr. sauros "lizard") (m) named in recognition of Ermine Cowles Case (1871-1953), American vertebrate paleontologist, "who discovered the holotype and made substantial contributions to our knowledge of Late Triassic tetrapods"; based on a right ilium identified as that of a herrerasaur that differs from Staurikosaurus, Herrerasaurus and Chindesaurus in various details. The type specimen (UMMP 8870) from the Tecovas Member of the Dockum Formation in Texas was originally attributed to Chindesaurus bryansmalli by Long and Murry (1995).
Type species: Caseosaurus crosbyensis [kroz-bee-EN-sis] Hunt, Lucas, Heckert, Sullivan & Lockley, 1998: "for Crosby County, Texas, which yielded the holotype."
Theropoda Herrerasauridae Late Triassic (Tuvalian) NA. [entry added 11-98]

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