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Colobops noviportensis

Osteichthyes - Rhynchocephalia

Taxonomy
Colobops noviportensis was named by Pritchard et al. (2018). Its type specimen is YPM VPPU 18835, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is I-91/Rte 6a/Rte 15, Meriden, which is in a Norian terrestrial sandstone in the New Haven Formation of Connecticut. It is the type species of Colobops.

Entered
by R. Butler on 2018-06-19

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2018Colobops noviportensis Pritchard et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
Neodiapsida
SauriaGauthier 1984
Lepidosauromorpha(Benton 1983)
superorderLepidosauria()
orderRhynchocephalia
genusColobops
speciesnoviportensis

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.

Colobops noviportensis Pritchard et al. 2018
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: planktonicp
Diet: suspension feederp
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Kiessling 2004, Bambach et al. 2007, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Norian or 227.30000 to 205.70000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Norian227.3 - 205.7USA (Connecticut) Sphenodontia indet. (type locality: 79375)