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Woutersia butleri

Mammalia - Symmetrodonta - Woutersiidae

Taxonomy
Woutersia butleri was named by Sigogneau-Russell and Hahn (1995). Its type specimen is SNP 517, a set of teeth (right lower molar), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, which is in a Rhaetian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone in the Grès à Avicula contorta Formation of France.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1995Woutersia butleri Sigogneau-Russell and Hahn pp. 247-248 figs. Figs 2, 3D and E
2004Woutersia butleri Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 345, 365

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Allotheria()
orderSymmetrodontaSimpson 1925
familyWoutersiidae
genusWoutersiaSigogneau-Russell 1983
speciesbutleri

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.

Woutersia butleri Sigogneau-Russell and Hahn 1995
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
D. Sigogneau-Russell and R. Hahn 1995Teeth of small size (length of type - 1.17 mm; width of type - 0.84 mm, i.e. 2/3 of Woutersia mimbilis); c less lingual relative to a; b and c bigger with respect to a