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Sauravus cambrayi

Amphibia - Scincosauridae

Taxonomy
Sauravus cambrayi was named by Carroll et al. (1998). Its type specimen is MNHN AUT 486, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Les Telots, which is in an Artinskian terrestrial horizon in France.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1910Sauravus cambrayi Thevenin
1998Sauravus cambrayi Carroll et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
RankNameAuthor
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
—Lepospondyli()
—Nectridea()
familyScincosauridaeJaeckel 1909
genusSauravus
speciescambrayi

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.

†Sauravus cambrayi Carroll et al. 1998
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: brackish, freshwater, terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Dispersal: waterc
Created: 2005-03-06 14:47:58
Modified: 2005-03-06 16:47:58
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Uhen 2004

Age range: Artinskian or 290.10000 to 279.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Artinskian290.1 - 279.3France (Bourgogne) Sauravus cambrayi (type locality: 80777)