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Cotylorhynchus hancocki

Caseidae

Taxonomy
Cotylorhynchus hancocki was named by Olson and Beerbower (1953). Its type specimen is CNHM (FMNH) UR 154, a set of limb elements (right humerus and proximal end of right radius), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Locality HA ("Lower San Angelo Fm."), which is in a Kungurian/Roadian fluvial claystone/conglomerate in the San Angelo Formation of Texas.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1953Cotylorhynchus hancocki Olson and Beerbower p. 401
1962Cotylorhynchus hancocki Olson pp. 28, 89 figs. 9-16; Pls. 6-10
1986Cotylorhynchus hancocki Reisz

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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
subclassSynapsida
—Caseasauria()
familyCaseidae
genusCotylorhynchusStovall 1937
specieshancocki

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.

†Cotylorhynchus hancocki Olson and Beerbower 1953
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Diagnosis
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