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Hylerpeton dawsoni

Gymnarthridae

Taxonomy
Hylerpeton dawsoni was named by Owen (1862). Its type specimen is BMNH R4180, a mandible, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Coal Mine Point; Divison 4, Section XV, coal-group 15, which is in a Westphalian A mire/swamp sandstone/coal in the Joggins Formation of Canada. It is the type species of Hylerpeton.

It was corrected as Hylerpeton dawsonii by Hay (1902).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1862Hylerpeton dawsoni Owen p. 241 figs. 16 pl. IX
1902Hylerpeton dawsonii Hay p. 413
1916Hylerpeton dawsoni Moodie pp. 47, 82

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—RecumbirostraAnderson 2007
familyGymnarthridae
genusHylerpeton
speciesdawsoni

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.

†Hylerpeton dawsoni Owen 1862
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Diagnosis
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