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Silvanerpeton

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Silvanerpeton was named by Clack (1994). Its type is Silvanerpeton miripedes.

It was assigned to Anthracosauroidea by Clack (1994); and to Tetrapoda by Clack and Milner (2015).

Species
S. miripedes (type species)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Silvanerpeton Clack pp. 369-372 figs. 1-4
2015Silvanerpeton Clack and Milner p. 64

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
RankNameAuthor
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
genusSilvanerpeton

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.

G. †Silvanerpeton Clack 1994
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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: Brigantian or 335.90000 to 330.30000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Brigantian335.9 - 330.3United Kingdom (Scotland) Anthracosauridae indet. (22725) S. miripedes (131670)