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Platycraniellus elegans

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Platycranion elegans was named by van Hoepen (1916). Its type specimen is TM 25, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Harrismith Commonage, which is in an Induan/Olenekian terrestrial horizon in the Normandien Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Platycraniellus, Platycranion.

It was recombined as Platycraniellus elegans by van Hoepen (1917).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1916Platycranion elegans van Hoepen
1917Platycraniellus elegans van Hoepen

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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
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Epicynodontia
genusPlatycraniellusvan Hoepen 1917
specieselegans(van Hoepen 1916)

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.

†Platycraniellus elegans van Hoepen 1916
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Induan to the top of the Olenekian or 251.90200 to 246.70000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Induan - Olenekian251.902 - 246.7South Africa (Free State) Platycranion elegans, Platycraniellus elegans (type locality: 88282)