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Burnetia mirabilis

Burnetiidae

Taxonomy
Burnetia mirabilis was named by Broom (1923). Its type specimen is BMNH R5397, a partial skull (without lower jaw, stapes, quadrates, and tip of rostrum), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Farm Water Krantz, Waterkrans, which is in a Wuchiapingian/Changhsingian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Balfour Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Burnetia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1923Burnetia mirabilis Broom
1989Burnetia mirabilis Sigogneau-Russell
2002Burnetia mirabilis Rubidge and Sidor p. 258 figs. 1-4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Eugnathostomata
—Teleostomi(Bonaparte 1836)
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderBiarmosuchia
—Burnetiamorpha()
familyBurnetiidae()
subfamilyBurnetiinaeBroom 1923
genusBurnetia
speciesmirabilis

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Burnetia mirabilis Broom 1923
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Diagnosis
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