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Olivierosuchus parringtoni

Osteichthyes - Therocephalia - Akidnognathidae

Taxonomy
Olivieria parringtoni was named by Brink (1965). Its type specimen is BPI 379, a partial skeleton (Complete skull and anterior portion of a skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is New Castle of the Admiralty Estates farm, Field No. 3849 (Beaufort Grp.), which is in an Induan/Olenekian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Normandien Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Olivieria, Olivierosuchus.

It was recombined as Olivierosuchus parringtoni by Kammerer and Sidor (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1965Olivieria parringtoni Brink p. 130 figs. 49, 50
2002Olivierosuchus parringtoni Kammerer and Sidor pp. 71 - 72

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
orderTherocephalia
—EutherocephaliaHopson and Barghusen 1986
familyAkidnognathidaeNopcsa 1923
genusOlivierosuchus
speciesparringtoni()

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: carnivoreo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:34:57
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:34:57
Source: o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Benton 1983, Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Induan to the top of the Olenekian or 251.90200 to 246.70000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Triassic251.902 - 246.7South Africa Olivierosuchus parringtoni (190139)
Induan - Olenekian251.902 - 246.7South Africa (Eastern Cape) Olivieria parringtonia (105610) Olivierosuchus parringtoni (85948 182579)
Induan - Olenekian251.902 - 246.7South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) Olivieria parringtoni (type locality: 34815)