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Cricotus

Osteichthyes - Archeriidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1875Cricotus Cope p. 405
1884Cricotus Cope p. 38
1902Cricotus Hay p. 420
1970Cricotus Panchen p. vii
1988Cricotus Carroll

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
RankNameAuthor
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
suborderEmbolomeri
familyArcheriidaeKuhn 1965
genusCricotus

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.

G. †Cricotus Cope 1875
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Cricotus crassidiscus Cope 1884
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Invalid names: Cricotus hypantricus Cope 1886 [synonym]
Cricotus heteroclitus Cope 1875
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Invalid names: Cricotus discophorus Cope 1877 [synonym], Cricotus gibsonii Cope 1877 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: brackish, freshwater, terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:19
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:19
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Missourian to the top of the Artinskian or 306.00000 to 283.30000 Ma

Collections (12 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Missourian306.0 - 303.7USA (Illinois) C. gibsonii, C. discophorus, C. heteroclitus (80714)
Sakmarian293.52 - 290.1USA (Texas) C. sp. (28122 28123 28124)
Sakmarian - Artinskian293.52 - 283.3USA (Texas) C. crassidiscus (28324)
Artinskian290.1 - 283.3USA (Texas) C. crassidiscus (108766) C. sp. (13080 28141 28142 28150 28240)
Artinskian - Kungurian290.1 - 274.4USA (Oklahoma) C. hypantricus (85733)