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Bishara backa

Osteichthyes - Temnospondyli

Taxonomy
Bishara backa was named by Nessov (1997). Its type specimen is CCMGE 240/12177, a set of vertebrae (incomplete atlantal centrum), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Baibishe, which is in a Santonian/Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Bostobe Formation of Kazakhstan. It is the type species of Bishara.

Entered
by E. Fara on 2007-02-08; modified by R. Benson on 2013-10-27

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1997Bishara backa Nessov p. 161 figs. pl. 10
1998Bishara backa Gardner and Averianov p. 461
2000Bishara backa Shishkin p. 307
2008Bishara backa Gardner and Böhme p. 179

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
RankNameAuthor
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
—Lissamphibia()
—Batrachia(Macartney 1802)
—Caudata(Scopoli 1777)
genusBishara
speciesbacka

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.

†Bishara backa Nessov 1997
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Diagnosis
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