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Gobiates spinari

Osteichthyes - Temnospondyli - Gobiatidae

Taxonomy
Gobiates spinari was named by Ročec and Nessov (1993). Its type specimen is LU-N5/137, an other (left squamosal), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CBI-4b, Dzharakuduk II, which is in a Turonian/Turonian terrestrial horizon in the Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1993Gobiates spinari Ročec and Nessov p. 16
1998Gobiates spinari Sanchiz
2000Gobiates spinari Shishkin p. 302
2008Gobiates spinari Roček

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
—Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
—Lissamphibia()
—Batrachia(Macartney 1802)
orderSalientia
suborderAnura()
familyGobiatidae
genusGobiates
speciesspinari

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.

†Gobiates spinari Ročec and Nessov 1993
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
Z. Roček 2008(1) Squamoso-maxillary suture long (a/b = 2.4-2.7); (2) posterior margin of the lamella alaris squamosi approximately perpendicular to squamoso-maxillary suture; and (3) perpendicular line constructed from the posterior end of squamosomaxillary suture cuts dorsal margin of the lamella alaris squamosi posterior to processus dorsalis.
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, Uhen 2004, Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Middle Turonian to the top of the Late/Upper Turonian or 93.90000 to 89.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Turonian - Late/Upper Turonian93.9 - 89.8Uzbekistan (Navoi) Gobiates spinari (type locality: 118246)