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Oolithes bathonicae

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Oolithes bathonicae was named by Buckman (1859). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is BM(NH) 37987IHEC 186, an egg, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Hare-Bushes Quarry, stage 4, which is in a Bathonian open shallow subtidal carbonate in the Bath Oolite Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Testudofiexoolithus bathonicae by Hirsch (1996).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1859Oolithes bathonicae Buckman p. 110 figs. 1-2
1871Oolithes bathonicae Carruthers p. 447
1882Oolithes bathonica Etheridge p. 198
1890Oolithes bathonicae Woodward and Sherborn p. 298
1928Oolithes bathonicae Van Straelen p. 306
1996Testudofiexoolithus bathonicae Hirsch

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
genusOolithes
speciesbathonicae

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.

†Oolithes bathonicae Buckman 1859
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Diagnosis
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