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Shelania pascuali

Osteichthyes - Temnospondyli

Taxonomy
Shelania pascuali was named by Casamiquela (1960). Its type specimen is PVL 2186, a partial skeleton (incomplete young individual), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Cañadon del Hunco, which is in a Lutetian lacustrine shale in the Laguna del Hunco Formation of Argentina.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1960Shelania pascuali Casamiquela
1997Shelania pascuali Baez and Trueb
1998Shelania pascuali Baez and Pugener p. 513
1998Shelania pascuali Sanchiz

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
—Lissamphibia()
—Batrachia(Macartney 1802)
orderSalientia
suborderAnura()
superfamilyPipoideaFitzinger 1843
—Panpipidae
—Shelaniinae
genusShelaniaCasamiquela 1960
speciespascualiCasamiquela 1960

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.

†Shelania pascuali Casamiquela 1960
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Diagnosis
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