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Paliguana whitei

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Paliguana whitei was named by Broom (1903). Its type specimen is AMG 3585, a partial skull (premaxillaries lost, lower jaw and maxillaries badly crushed), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Donnybrook (Queenstown District), which is in an Induan/Olenekian fluvial mudstone in the Katberg Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Paliguana.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1903Paliguana whitei Broom p. 3 figs. 1, 2 Pl. 1
1975Paliguana whitei Carroll
1983Paliguana whitei Estes p. 13 fig. 2
2016Paliguana whitei Ezcurra

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Eosuchia()
—Neodiapsida
—SauriaGauthier 1984
—Lepidosauromorpha(Benton 1983)
genusPaliguana
specieswhitei

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.

†Paliguana whitei Broom 1903
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Induan to the top of the Olenekian or 252.17000 to 247.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Induan - Olenekian252.17 - 247.2South Africa (Eastern Cape) Paliguana whitei (type locality: 13043)