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Saurorhynchus anningae

Osteichthyes - Acropomatiformes - Coccocephalichthyidae

Taxonomy
Saurorhynchus anningae was named by Maxwell and Stumpf (2017). Its type specimen is NHMUK PV P 3791, a skull, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Lyme Regis, Enniskillen collection, which is in a Sinemurian marine horizon in the United Kingdom.

Entered
by M. Clapham on 2017-07-01; modified by M. Clapham on 2022-06-17

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2017Saurorhynchus anningae Maxwell and Stumpf p. 9 figs. 1C, 2B, 3A, 4A, 6B, 7A

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassActinopterygii()
orderAcropomatiformes
infraclassActinopteri()
orderAmblypteriformesHeyler 1969
orderBerycomorphi
orderCheirolepidiformes
infraclassChondrosteiMüller 1844
infraclassCladistia(Cope 1870)
familyCoccocephalichthyidaeFowler 1951
familyCoccolepidaeBerg 1940
orderDorypteriformes
orderElonichthyiformesKazantseva-Selezneva 1977
orderEurynotoidiformesMinikh and Minikh 1990
RankNameAuthor
orderGuildayichthyiformes
HalecostomiRegan 1903
familyHaplolepidaeWestoll 1944
orderHeteromi
familyHowqualepididae
familyIrajapintoseidaeBeltan 1990
familyMimiidaeGardiner 1993
NeopterygiiRegan 1923
orderPercomorphi
orderPhanerorhynchiformes
orderPhanerosteoniformes
orderPlatysomiformes
orderPlectognathi
orderPtycholepidiformes
orderRedfieldiiformes(Berg 1940)
orderRhadinichthyiformes
orderSaurichthyiformes
familySaurichthyidaeStensiö 1925
genusSaurorhynchus
speciesanningaeRusconi 1946

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.

Saurorhynchus anningae Maxwell and Stumpf 2017
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: nektonicf
Diet: carnivoref
Created: 2013-12-05 19:36:26
Modified: 2013-12-06 11:31:35
Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Devyatov et al. 2005

Age range: Sinemurian or 199.50000 to 192.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sinemurian199.5 - 192.9United Kingdom (England) Belonorhynchus acutus (122153 type locality: 122155)