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Coloraderpeton brilli

Ophiderpetontidae

Taxonomy
Coloraderpeton brilli was named by Vaughn (1969). Its type specimen is UCLA VP 1689, a set of vertebrae, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Interval 300 of section of the Sangre de Cristo Formation, which is in a Moscovian terrestrial horizon in the Sangre de Cristo Formation of Colorado.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1969Coloraderpeton brilli Vaughn
1998Coloraderpeton brilli Carroll et al. p. 180

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
RankNameAuthor
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
suborderAistopoda
familyOphiderpetontidaeSchwarz 1908
genusColoraderpetonVaughn 1969
speciesbrilli

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.

†Coloraderpeton brilli Vaughn 1969
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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: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Moscovian or 315.20000 to 307.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Moscovian315.2 - 307.0USA (Colorado) Coloraderpeton brilli (type locality: 176968)