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Saurosternon bainii

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Saurosternon bainii was named by Huxley (1868). Its type specimen is BMNH R1234, a set of postcrania (postcranial skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Stylkrantz, Sniewe Berg (Dicynodon AZ), which is in a Wuchiapingian/Changhsingian terrestrial sandstone in South Africa. It is the type species of Saurosternon.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1868Saurosternon bainii Huxley
1913Saurosternon baini Broom
1983Saurosternon bainii Estes p. 15 fig. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Eosuchia()
—Neodiapsida
genusSaurosternon
speciesbainii

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.

†Saurosternon bainii Huxley 1868
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Invalid names: Saurosternon baini Huxley [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Wuchiapingian to the top of the Changhsingian or 259.51000 to 251.90200 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian259.51 - 251.902South Africa (Eastern Cape) Saurosternon bainii (type locality: 171337)