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Trucheosaurus major

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Rhytidosteidae

Taxonomy
Bothriceps major was named by Woodward (1909). Its type specimen is MMF 12697a, AMF 50977, BMNH R3728, a partial skeleton (Skull table and partial postcranium ), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Commonwealth Oil Corporation oil shale mine, Airly, which is in a Wuchiapingian deltaic shale in the Glen Davis Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Trucheosaurus.

It was recombined as Trucheosaurus major by Watson (1956), Marsicano and Warren (1998), Schoch and Milner (2000), Poropat et al. (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1909Bothriceps major Woodward p. 318 figs. Pl. 51
1956Trucheosaurus major Watson p. 327
1998Trucheosaurus major Marsicano and Warren p. 147
2000Trucheosaurus major Schoch and Milner p. 83
2023Trucheosaurus major Poropat et al. p. 140

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
RankNameAuthor
orderTemnospondyli()
—Eutemnospondyli
—Rhachitomi()
—Eryopiformes
—Stereospondylomorpha
—Stereospondyli()
infraorderRhytidostea
superfamilyRhytidosteoidea
familyRhytidosteidaeHuene 1920
subfamilyPeltosteginaeSave-Soderbergh 1935
genusTrucheosaurus
speciesmajor()

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.

†Trucheosaurus major Woodward 1909
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
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: Uhen 2004, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Wuchiapingian or 259.51000 to 254.14000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Wuchiapingian259.51 - 254.14Australia (New South Wales) Bothriceps major (136494)