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Crassigyrinus scoticus

Osteichthyes - Crassigyrinidae

Taxonomy
Crassigyrinus scoticus was named by Watson (1929). Its type specimen is Royal Scotish Museum No. 272 (Hugh Miller collection), a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Gilmerton Ironstone, which is in a Brigantian fluvial-lacustrine limestone/coal in the Gilmerton Ironstone Formation of the United Kingdom.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Macromerium scoticum Lydekker
1929Crassigyrinus scoticus Watson

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
RankNameAuthor
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
familyCrassigyrinidaeHuene 1948
genusCrassigyrinusWatson 1926
speciesscoticus

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.

Crassigyrinus scoticus Watson 1929
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Invalid names: Macromerium scoticum Lydekker 1890 [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: brackish, freshwater, terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:19
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:19
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Brigantian to the top of the Pendleian or 335.90000 to 326.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Brigantian335.9 - 330.3United Kingdom (Scotland) Crassigyrinus scoticus (type locality: 175821)
Pendleian330.3 - 326.9United Kingdom (England) Crassigyrinus scoticus (22726)