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Ophiacodon major
Taxonomy
Ophiacodon major was named by Romer and Price (1940). Its type specimen is AMNH 4109, a set of vertebrae, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Maybelle, which is in a Leonardian terrestrial horizon in the Waggoner Ranch Formation of Texas.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1940 | Ophiacodon major Romer and Price p. 246 |
| 1986 | Ophiacodon major Reisz |
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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.
†Ophiacodon major Romer and Price 1940
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Sakmarian to the top of the Artinskian or 293.52000 to 279.30000 Ma
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Sakmarian | USA (Texas) | Ophiacodon major (28120) | |
| Artinskian | USA (Texas) | Ophiacodon major (28148) | |
| Artinskian - Kungurian | USA (Oklahoma) | Ophiacodon major (85733) | |
| Artinskian - Kungurian | USA (Texas) | Ophiacodon major (85299 85300) Theropleura sp. (28253) | |
| Leonardian | USA (Texas) | Ophiacodon major (type locality: 80690) |