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Hyperodapedon gordoni

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Hyperodapedon gordoni was named by Huxley (1859). Its type specimen is ELGNM 1978.566, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lossiemouth West & East Quarries, Elgin, which is in a Carnian/Norian dune sandstone/sandstone in the Lossiemouth Sandstone Formation of the United Kingdom.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1859Hyperodapedon gordoni Huxley
1903Stenometopon taylori Boulenger p. 178
1934Hyperodapedon gordoni Swinton p. 47
2000Hyperodapedon gordoni Langer et al. p. 17
2015Hyperodapedon gordoni Mukherjee and Ray

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
RankNameAuthor
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—Rhynchosauria()
—Rhynchosauridae()
—Hyperodapedontinae(Chatterjee 1969)
genusHyperodapedonHuxley 1859
speciesgordoniHuxley 1859

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.

†Hyperodapedon gordoni Huxley 1859
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Invalid names: Stenometopon taylori Boulenger 1903 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: herbivoreg
Created: 2009-01-03 21:14:34
Modified: 2009-01-03 23:14:34
Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Benton 1983

Age range: base of the Carnian to the top of the Norian or 237.00000 to 208.50000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Carnian - Norian237.0 - 208.5United Kingdom (Scotland) Hyperodapedon gordoni (89008 89012) Stenometopon taylori, Hyperodapedon gordoni (type locality: 57948)