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Batropetes niederkirchensis

Brachystelechidae

Taxonomy
Batropetes niederkirchensis was named by Glienke (2013). Its type specimen is SMNS 55884, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Niederkirchen/Westpfalz, which is in an Asselian lacustrine - large shale in the Meisenheim Formation of Germany.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2013Batropetes niederkirchensis Glienke p. 75

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—RecumbirostraAnderson 2007
familyBrachystelechidae
genusBatropetes
speciesniederkirchensis

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
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Asselian or 298.90000 to 295.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Asselian298.9 - 295.5Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate) Batropetes niederkirchensis (type locality: 85451)