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Platyspondylia lepta

Osteichthyes - Tropidophiidae

Taxonomy
Platyspondylia lepta was named by Rage (1974). Its type specimen is MNHN PFR 6350, a partial skeleton (numerous vertebrae, a palatine, a quadrate, and an ?articular), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Pech du Fraysse, which is in a MP 28 terrestrial horizon in France.

Entered
by J. Head on 2006-03-13; modified by T. Cleary on 2016-08-24

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1974Platyspondylia lepta Rage p. 288 figs. 4-6
1984Platyspondylia lepta Rage p. 32

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
—Squamata()
suborderOphidia(Latreille 1804)
—Serpentes(Linnaeus 1758)
infraorderAlethinophidia
—Macrostomata
familyTropidophiidaeCope 1894
genusPlatyspondylia
specieslepta

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.

†Platyspondylia lepta Rage 1974
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Diagnosis
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