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Aerosaurus wellesi

Osteichthyes - Varanopidae

Taxonomy
Aerosaurus wellesi was named by Langston and Reisz (1981). Its type specimen is UCMP 40096, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP V-2814, which is in a Virgilian/Wolfcampian terrestrial siltstone in the Abo/Cutler Formation of New Mexico.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1981Aerosaurus wellesi Langston and Reisz p. 74
1986Aerosaurus wellesi Reisz

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
suborderEupelycosauria
familyVaranopidae()
Neovaranopsia
subfamilyVaranodontinae
genusAerosaurus
specieswellesi

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.

Aerosaurus wellesi Langston and Reisz 1981
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: planktonicp
Diet: suspension feederp
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Bambach et al. 2007, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Virgilian to the top of the Wolfcampian or 303.70000 to 286.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Virgilian - Wolfcampian303.7 - 286.0USA (New Mexico) Aerosaurus wellesi (type locality: 77412)