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Neusibatrachus wilferti

Osteichthyes - Temnospondyli

Taxonomy
Neusibatrachus wilferti was named by Seiffert (1972). Its type specimen is FUB 33A, B, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is La Pedrera de Meià, El Montsec, which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large limestone in the La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation of Spain. It is the type species of Neusibatrachus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1972Neusibatrachus wilferti Seiffert
2007Neusibatrachus wilferti Báez and Sanchiz

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
RankNameAuthor
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
Lissamphibia()
Batrachia(Macartney 1802)
orderSalientia
suborderAnura()
genusNeusibatrachusSeiffert 1972
specieswilfertiSeiffert 1972

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.

Neusibatrachus wilferti Seiffert 1972
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
A. M. Báez and B. Sanchiz 2007Small anuran that shares only with pipoids the joint presence of an azygous frontoparietal and a parasphenoid lacking subotic alae, but differs from them in having 9 presacral vertebrae. It differs from Rhadinosteous and rhinophrynids in having the atlas formed by fusion of Vertebrae I and II, and metacarpals exceeding 75% the length of the radioulna. It differs from all known pipimorphs in the presence of a complete maxillary arch and can be further distinguished from crown pipids in the presence of a T−shaped squamosal, pedicellate teeth, a parahyoid bone, and a bicondylar articulation between sacrum and urostyle. It also differs from Thoraciliacus and Cordicephalus in its narrower braincase, a frontoparietal forming a flat dorsal table, and tiny scapular cleft and it can be distinguished from palaeobatrachids in having a T−shaped squamosal lacking processes on the ventral ramus, an articulation for the lower jaw at the midlevel of the otic capsules, a monovertebral sacrum, slightly expanded sacral diapophyses, and a coracoid lacking a conspicuous rostral process and having a slightly expanded sternal end.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: brackish, freshwater, terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilesubo
Life habit: amphibioussubo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Dispersal: waterc
Created: 2009-07-20 21:44:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:44:54
Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Uhen 2004, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Early/Lower Barremian or 125.77000 to 121.40000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Barremian125.77 - 121.4Spain (Cataluña) Neusibatrachus wilferti (type locality: 85293)