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Bernissartia fagesii

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Bernissartia fagesii was named by Dollo (1883). Its type specimen is Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Brussels, I.R.Sc.N.B. R46 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sainte-Barbe coal mine, Bernissart, which is in a Barremian/Aptian lacustrine - small claystone/bituminous coal in the Sainte-Barbe Clays Formation of Belgium. It is the type species of Bernissartia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1883Bernissartia fagesii Dollo p. 315
1884Bernissartia fagesii Dollo p. 8
1967Bernissartia fagesi Charig p. 705
1990Bernissartia fagesii Buscalioni and Sanz
2011Bernissartia fagesii Puértolas et al.
2012Bernissartia fagesii Bronzati et al.
2014Bernissartia fagesii Sertich and O'Connor

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
RankNameAuthor
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
—SuchiaKrebs 1974
—Paracrocodylomorpha
—Loricata(Merrem 1820)
—Crocodylomorpha()
—Solidocrania
suborderCrocodyliformes
—MesoeucrocodyliaWhetstone and Whybrow 1983
—NeosuchiaClark 1988
genusBernissartia
speciesfagesii

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.

†Bernissartia fagesii Dollo 1883
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marineuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: carnivoresubo
Created: 2017-04-17 10:39:01
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:39:01
Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Benton 1983, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Bush and Bambach 2015, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Berriasian to the top of the Early/Lower Barremian or 143.10000 to 121.40000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Berriasian - Middle Berriasian143.1 - 139.1France (Poitou-Charentes) Bernissartia fagesii (61930)
Early/Lower Barremian125.77 - 121.4Spain (Aragón) Bernissartia sp. (36368)
Barremian - Early/Lower Aptian125.77 - 119.57Belgium (Hainaut) Bernissartia fagesii (type locality: 22645)