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Laoporus gravis

Taxonomy
Barypodus gravis was named by Schmidt (1959). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is Rotenburg RoC 1+2, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Laoporus gravis by Haubold (1971), Courel and Demathieu (1976).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1959Barypodus gravis Schmidt p. 58
1971Laoporus gravis Haubold p. 40
1976Laoporus gravis Courel and Demathieu p. 213

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
RankNameAuthor
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
genusLaoporusLull 1918
speciesgravis()

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.

†Laoporus gravis Schmidt 1959
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†Barypodus gravis major Schmidt 1959
†Barypodus gravis junior Schmidt 1959
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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: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988
Collections
No collection or age range data are available