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Borealestes serendipitus

Docodonta - Docodontidae

Taxonomy
Borealestes serendipitus was named by Waldman and Savage (1972). Its type specimen is BRSUG 20570, a mandible (Left mandible with two premolars and part of a third, four molars fully erupted, one unerupted and alveolus of a sixth), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UB 7111, Cladach a'Ghlinne, which is in a Bathonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal marl in the Kilmaluag Formation of the United Kingdom.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1969Borealestes serendipitus Walker
1972Borealestes serendipitus Waldman and Savage
1979Borealestes serendipitus Kron p. 91
2003Borealestes serendipitus Sigogneau-Russell pp. 357-358
2004Borealestes serendipitus Kielan-Jaworowska et al. p. 197

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
orderDocodontaKretzoi 1946
familyDocodontidae
genusBorealestes
speciesserendipitus

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.

†Borealestes serendipitus Waldman and Savage 1972
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: scansorialuc
Diet: insectivoreuc
Created: 2011-04-24 23:35:11
Modified: 2011-04-24 08:35:11
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Luo et al. 2003, Carroll 1988

Age range: Bathonian or 168.20000 to 165.30000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bathonian168.2 - 165.3United Kingdom (Scotland) Borealestes serendipitus (type locality: 139746)
Late/Upper Bathonian168.2 - 165.3United Kingdom (England) Borealestes serendipitus (39075) Docodonta indet. (57124)