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Casea nicholsi

Caseidae

Taxonomy
Casea nicholsi was named by Olson (1954). Its type specimen is CNHM (FMNH) UR 86, a partial skeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Locality KC (Upper Vale Fm.), which is in a Kungurian coarse channel fill conglomerate in the Vale Formation of Texas.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1954Casea nicholsi Olson pp. 194-195
1986Casea nicholsi Reisz

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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
subclassSynapsida
Caseasauria()
familyCaseidae
genusCasea
speciesnicholsi

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.

Casea nicholsi Olson 1954
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Kungurian or 279.30000 to 272.30000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kungurian279.3 - 272.3USA (Texas) Casea nicholsi (67735 type locality: 85552)