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Apateon flagrifer

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Branchiosauridae

Taxonomy
Branchiosaurus flagrifer was named by Whittard (1930). Its type specimen is UMZC T.22 (formerly DMSW B.48), a skeleton (in dorsal aspect), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Gottlob quarry, Friedrichroda, which is in an Asselian fluvial-lacustrine horizon in the Goldlauterer Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Apateon flagrifer by Werneburg (1988), Schoch and Milner (2014).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
A. umbrosa

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1930Branchiosaurus flagrifer Whittard
1963Branchiosaurus brachyrhynchus Watson
1988Apateon flagrifer Werneburg
2014Apateon flagrifer Schoch and Milner p. 48

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
—Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
—Eutemnospondyli
—Rhachitomi()
—Dissorophoidea()
—Xerodromes
—Amphibamiformes
familyBranchiosauridaeFritsch 1883
genusApateonvon Meyer 1844
speciesflagrifer(Whittard 1930)

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.

†Apateon flagrifer Whittard 1930
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Invalid names: Branchiosaurus brachyrhynchus Watson 1963 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: brackish, freshwater, terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilesubo
Life habit: amphibioussubo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Dispersal: waterc
Created: 2009-07-20 21:44:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:44:54
Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Uhen 2004

Age range: base of the Asselian to the top of the Sakmarian or 298.90000 to 290.10000 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Asselian298.9 - 293.52Germany (Thuringia) Apateon flagrifer (180778 181129 181130) Branchiosaurus flagrifer (180765)
Autunian298.9 - 283.3Germany (Thuringia) Apateon flagrifer (181128)
Sakmarian293.52 - 290.1Germany (Thüringia) Apateon flagrifer (180795)
Sakmarian293.52 - 290.1Germany (Thuringia) Apateon flagrifer (180764)