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Shansiodon wangi

Osteichthyes - Anomodontia - Shansiodontidae

Taxonomy
Shansiodon wangi was named by Yeh (1959). Its type specimen is IVPP V 2415, a skeleton (Nearly complete skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hsiaotukou, Yinjiao, 5673, Wuhsiang-Yüshe area, which is in an Anisian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Ermaying Formation of China. It is the type species of Shansiodon.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1959Shansiodon wangi Yeh
1980Shansiodon wupuensis Cheng p. 154 figs. 37-38
2008Shansiodon wangi Li and Sun p. 394

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
orderAnomodontiaOwen 1859
orderDicynodontia()
—DicynodontoideaCluver and King 1983
—Kannemeyeriiformes(Huene 1948)
familyShansiodontidae
genusShansiodon
specieswangi

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.

†Shansiodon wangi Yeh 1959
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Invalid names: Shansiodon wupuensis Cheng 1980 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: herbivoreo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:33:45
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:33:45
Source: o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Benton 1983

Age range: Anisian or 246.70000 to 241.46400 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Anisian246.7 - 241.464China (Shanxi) Shansiodon wangi (type locality: 143467)