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Ophiderpeton kirktonense

Osteichthyes - Ophiderpetontidae

Taxonomy
Ophiderpeton kirktonense was named by Milner (1994). Its type specimen is NMS G 1988.3.1, a partial skeleton (articulated skull and anterior trunk), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is East Kirkton site (Units 70-82: East Kirkton Limestone), which is in a Brigantian spring shale/limestone in the East Kirkton Limestone Formation of the United Kingdom.

Entered
by R. Benson on 2012-07-27

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Ophiderpeton kirktonense Milner p. 363 figs. 1-3, 5
1998Ophiderpeton kirktonense Carroll et al. p. 180

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
RankNameAuthor
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
suborderAistopoda
familyOphiderpetontidaeSchwarz 1908
genusOphiderpetonHuxley 1866
specieskirktonense

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.

†Ophiderpeton kirktonense Milner 1994
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Diagnosis
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