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Apateon kontheri

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Branchiosauridae

Taxonomy
Apateon kontheri was named by Werneburg (1988). Its type specimen is FG 321/9/1, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Gottlob quarry, Friedrichroda, which is in an Asselian fluvial-lacustrine horizon in the Goldlauterer Formation of Germany.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
A. umbrosa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1988Apateon kontheri Werneburg
2014Apateon kontheri Schoch and Milner p. 48

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
—Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
—Eutemnospondyli
—Rhachitomi()
—Dissorophoidea()
—Xerodromes
—Amphibamiformes
familyBranchiosauridaeFritsch 1883
genusApateonvon Meyer 1844
specieskontheriWerneburg 1988

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.

†Apateon kontheri Werneburg 1988
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: brackish, freshwater, terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilesubo
Life habit: amphibioussubo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Dispersal: waterc
Created: 2009-07-20 21:44:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:44:54
Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Uhen 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Asselian or 298.90000 to 295.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Asselian298.9 - 295.5Germany (Thuringia) Apateon kontheri (type locality: 180765)