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Anconastes vesperus

Osteichthyes - Temnospondyli - Trematopidae

Taxonomy
Anconastes vesperus was named by Berman et al. (1987). Its type specimen is CM 41711, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is El Cobre Canyon, which is in a Missourian/Gzhelian dry floodplain siltstone in the Cutler Formation of New Mexico. It is the type species of Anconastes.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1987Anconastes vesperus Berman et al. p. 256 figs. 5-11

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
Eutemnospondyli
Rhachitomi()
Dissorophoidea()
Xerodromes
Olsoniformes
familyTrematopidae()
genusAnconastes
speciesvesperus

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.

Anconastes vesperus Berman et al. 1987
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: brackish, freshwater, terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilesubo
Life habit: ground dwellinguc
Diet: carnivoreuc
Dispersal: waterc
Created: 2011-01-30 12:48:41
Modified: 2011-01-29 19:48:41
Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Kiessling 2004, Reisz et al. 2009, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Uhen 2004

Age range: base of the Missourian to the top of the Gzhelian or 306.00000 to 298.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Missourian - Gzhelian306.0 - 298.9USA (New Mexico) Anconastes vesperus (type locality: 12943)