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Batrachosuchoides lacer

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Tupilakosauridae

Taxonomy
Batrachosuchoides lacer was named by Shishkin (1967). Its type specimen is PIN 953/2, a partial skull (Anterior part of skull), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Okunevo (Fedorovka River), which is in an Olenekian terrestrial horizon in the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Batrachosuchoides.

Synonyms
  • Batrachosuchoides impressus was named by Novikov and Shishkin (1994). Its type specimen is PIN 4370/1, a partial skull, and it is an impression. Its type locality is PIN 4370, Hey Yaga River, which is in an Olenekian terrestrial sandstone in the Nyadeytinskaya Formation of the Russian Federation.

    It was synonymized subjectively with Batrachosuchoides lacer by Schoch and Milner (2014).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1967Batrachosuchoides lacer Shishkin
1994Batrachosuchoides impressus Novikov and Shishkin
2000Batrachosuchoides lacer Warren and Marsicano p. 470
2014Batrachosuchoides lacer Schoch and Milner p. 36

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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()
—Dvinosauria
superfamilyDvinosauroideaSäve-Söderbergh 1935
familyTupilakosauridaeKuhn 1960
genusBatrachosuchoides
specieslacer

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.

†Batrachosuchoides lacer Shishkin 1967
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Invalid names: Batrachosuchoides impressus Novikov and Shishkin 1994 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available