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Aletrimyti gaskillae

Taxonomy
Aletrimyti gaskillae was named by Szostakiwskyj et al. (2015) [Small recumbirostran with the following combination of characters: median anterior braincase bone with well-developed Y-shaped ossification of columella ethmoidalis bracing against skull roof; strongly pointed snout with strongly recumbent premaxilla flooring nearly the entire length of the external naris; lacrimal deeply waisted between orbit and external naris; maxilla does not reach posterior margin of the orbit; ventral orbital process of lacrimal reaches suborbital process of jugal; broad suture between palatine process of prefrontal and palatine;skull diamond-shaped in dorsal view; postparietals converge to a point posteriorly; occipital contribution of postparietals greater than 60% their size; parietal pair no wider than frontal pair; cheek deeply emarginated, with contact between jugal and squamosal reduced or absent; quadrate anteriorly-displaced greater than 30% the length of the skull; coronoid eminence no more than 130% depth of the mandibular ramus; anterior process of coronoid extends more than 50% of the tooth row; depth of surangular less than 50% its length; pleurosphenoids form sutural contact with posterior margin of sphenethmoids.]. Its type specimen is FM-UR 1040, a skull (Skull and lower jaws), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Norman, which is in a Kungurian fluvial-lacustrine shale/shale in the Hennessey Formation of Oklahoma.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2015Aletrimyti gaskillae Szostakiwskyj et al.

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

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.

Aletrimyti gaskillae Szostakiwskyj et al. 2015
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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: Kungurian or 279.30000 to 272.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kungurian279.3 - 272.3USA (Oklahoma) Aletrimyti gaskillae (type locality: 79531)