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Platyoposaurus rickardi

Osteichthyes - Temnospondyli - Archegosauridae

Taxonomy
Platyops rickardi was named by Tvelvetrees (1880). Its type specimen is a specimen of Rickard's collection (current whereabouts unknown), a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kargalinski Mines, PIN 1954, PIN 48, locality 12 of Tverdokhlebov et al. (2005), which is in an Urzhumian deltaic sandstone/conglomerate in the Amanakskaya Formation of the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Platyoposaurus.

It was recombined as Platyoposaurus rickardi by Schoch and Milner (2000), Shishkin et al. (2000).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1880Platyops rickardi Tvelvetrees p. 313
1947Platyops rickardi Romer p. 153
2000Platyoposaurus rickardi Schoch and Milner
2000Platyoposaurus rickardi Shishkin et al. p. 42

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
RankNameAuthor
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
superfamilyArchegosauroideavon Meyer 1857
familyArchegosauridaevon Meyer 1857
genusPlatyoposaurus
speciesrickardi(Tvelvetrees 1880)

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.

Platyoposaurus rickardi Tvelvetrees 1880
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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: amphibioussubo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Dispersal: waterc
Created: 2009-07-20 21:44:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:44:54
Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004, Uhen 2004

Age range: Urzhumian or 266.90000 to 264.28000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Urzhumian266.9 - 264.28Russian Federation (Orenburg) Platyops rickardi (type locality: 87039)