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Kuehneon duchyense

Mammalia - Symmetrodonta

Taxonomy
Kuehneon duchyense was named by Kretzoi (1960). Its type specimen is Duchy-33, a tooth (upper molar), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Duchy Quarry (St. Bride's Island), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fissure fill limestone/marl in the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Kuehneon.

It was considered a nomen vanum by Cassiliano and Clemens (1979).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1960Kuehneon duchyense Kretzoi p. 308
2004Kuehneon duchyense Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 345, 363

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Allotheria()
orderSymmetrodontaSimpson 1925
genusKuehneon
speciesduchyense

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.

†Kuehneon duchyense Kretzoi 1960
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: scansorialuc
Diet: insectivoreuc
Created: 2005-09-06 19:53:51
Modified: 2005-09-07 19:44:02
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Luo et al. 2003, Carroll 1988, Hopson 1973, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Hettangian to the top of the Sinemurian or 201.30000 to 190.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.3 - 190.8United Kingdom (Wales) Symmetrodonta indet. (type locality: 45919)