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Amadeodipterus kencampbelli

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Amadeodipterus kencampbelli was named by Young and Schultze (2005) [A short-headed dipnoan (interorbital distance nearly as wide as the skull is long) with a B-bone broader than long. Bones A and H enclosed in the skull roof; short C-bones; large, possibly unpaired E-bone; bone I larger than bone J.]. It is not extant. Its type specimen is ANU V2709, a partial skull (An incomplete skull roof). Its type locality is Orange Peel Knob, Mount WInter, which is in an Emsian/Eifelian marine siltstone in the Parkes Siltstone Formation of Australia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2005Amadeodipterus kencampbelli Young and Schultze fig. 3A,4,5A

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
RankNameAuthor
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
infraclassDipnomorpha(Ahlberg 1991)
superorderDipnoi(Müller 1884)
genusAmadeodipterus
specieskencampbelli

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.

Amadeodipterus kencampbelli Young and Schultze 2005
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2009-07-20 21:50:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:50:54
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Emsian to the top of the Eifelian or 410.62000 to 387.95000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Emsian - Eifelian410.62 - 387.95Australia (Northern Territory) Amadeodipterus kencampbelli (type locality: 196701)