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Parringtonia gracilis

Reptilia - Erpetosuchidae

Taxonomy
Parringtonia gracilis was named by Huene (1939). Its type specimen is NHMUK R8646, a partial skeleton (relatively complete right maxilla, five nearly complete dorsal vertebrae, two dorsal centra, two partial dorsal neural arches, three caudal vertebrae, five oste), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Parrington, Upper Bone Bed, Ruhuhu (Loc. B 15/1), which is in an Anisian fluvial-deltaic sandstone/siltstone in the Manda Beds Formation of Tanzania. It is the type species of Parringtonia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1939Parringtonia gracilis Huene p. 65 figs. Pl. 4
2012Parringtonia gracilis Nesbitt and Butler

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
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()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
familyErpetosuchidae
genusParringtonia
speciesgracilis

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.

†Parringtonia gracilis Huene 1939
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: carnivoresubo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:38:45
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:38:45
Source: subo = suborder, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Benton 1983

Age range: Anisian or 247.20000 to 242.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Anisian247.2 - 242.0Tanzania (Ruvuma) Parringtonia gracilis (type locality: 64085)