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Siren dunni

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela

Taxonomy
Siren dunni was named by Goin and Auffenberg (1957). Its type specimen is YPM 3873, a set of vertebrae (dorsal vertebra), and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Henry's Fork Hill (Bridger C), which is in a Bridgerian terrestrial horizon in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
S. intermedia

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1957Siren dunni Goin and Auffenberg p. 83
1981Siren dunni Estes

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
—Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
—Lissamphibia()
—Batrachia(Macartney 1802)
—Caudata(Scopoli 1777)
familyUrodela()
familySirenidaeGray 1825
genusSirenLinnaeus 1766
speciesdunni

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.

†Siren dunni Goin and Auffenberg 1957
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available