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Pleurodontagama aenigmatodes

Osteichthyes - Hoplocercidae

Taxonomy
Pleurodontagama aenigmatodes was named by Borsuk-Bialynicka and Moody (1984). Its type specimen is ZPAL MgR-III/35, a partial skeleton (incomplete skull with mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Khermeen Tsav I, Red Beds [PMPE], which is in a Campanian/Campanian eolian sandstone in the Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1984Pleurodontagama aenigmatodes Borsuk-Bialynicka and Moody pp. 63-66 figs. 4-5, pls 15, 18-19
1995Pleurodontagama aenigmatodes Gao and Hou p. 75
1996Pleurodontagama aenigmatodes Gao and Hou p. 584

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
—Squamata()
—IguanomorphaSukhanov 1961
—Pleurodonta(Cope 1864)
familyHoplocercidaeFrost and Etheridge 1989
subfamilyPleurodontagaminae
tribePleurodontagamini
genusPleurodontagama
speciesaenigmatodes

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.

†Pleurodontagama aenigmatodes Borsuk-Bialynicka and Moody 1984
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
K. -Q. Gao and L. -H. Hou 1995Differs from closely related Priscagama only in having proportionally longer jaws, greater number of marginal teeth, and subpleurodont tooth attachment
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: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Middle Campanian to the top of the Late/Upper Campanian or 83.60000 to 72.20000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Campanian83.6 - 72.2China (Nei Mongol) Pleurodontagama aenigmatodes (116292)
Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian83.6 - 72.2Mongolia (Omnogov) Pleurodontagama aenigmatodes (type locality: 13777)