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Spondylosoma absconditum

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Spondylosoma absconditum was named by Huene (1942). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Baum-Sanga (excavation 44), Chiniquá, which is in a Ladinian terrestrial horizon in the Santa Maria Formation of Brazil. It is the type species of Spondylosoma.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1940Spondylosoma absconditum Huene p. 283
1942Spondylosoma absconditum Huene p. 247 figs. 1-13; pl. 30
1967Spondylosoma absconditum Charig p. 712
1970Spondylosoma absconditum Colbert p. 27
1970Spondylosoma absconditum Steel p. 50
1970Spondylosoma absconditum Swinton p. 35
1973Spondylosoma absconditum Bonaparte p. 110
1976Spondylosoma absconditum Galton and Cluver p. 152
1978Spondylosoma absconditum Bonaparte p. 327
1979Spondylosoma absconditum Bonaparte p. 221
1987Spondylosoma absconditum Brinkman and Sues p. 500
1990Spondylosoma absconditum Sues p. 147
1991Spondylosoma absconditum Olshevsky p. 104
1996Spondylosoma absconditum Kellner p. 610
2000Spondylosoma absconditum Galton p. 417
2004Spondylosoma absconditum Langer p. 27
2010Spondylosoma absconditum Langer et al. p. 68
2011Spondylosoma absconditum Bittencourt and Langer p. 24
2013Spondylosoma absconditum Da-Rosa p. R14
2017Spondylosoma absconditum Nesbitt et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
RankNameAuthor
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Aphanosauria
genusSpondylosoma
speciesabsconditum

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: planktonicp
Diet: suspension feederp
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum
References: Bambach et al. 2007, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Ladinian or 241.46400 to 237.00000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ladinian241.464 - 237.0Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) Spondylosoma absconditum (type locality: 48659 99365 99415)