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Milosaurus mccordi

Pelycosauria

Taxonomy
Milosaurus mccordi was named by DeMar (1970). Its type specimen is FMNH 701, a partial skeleton (pelvis, hind limb and pes, caudal vertebrae), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Falmouth Locality, which is in a Stephanian/Virgilian lacustrine deltaic mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Mattoon Formation of Illinois. It is the type species of Milosaurus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1970Milosaurus mccordi DeMar p. 155 figs. 1, 5-7
1986Milosaurus mccordi Reisz p. 84

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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
orderPelycosauria
genusMilosaurus
speciesmccordi

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.

Milosaurus mccordi DeMar 1970
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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: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Stephanian to the top of the Virgilian or 306.95000 to 298.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Stephanian - Virgilian306.95 - 298.9USA (Illinois) Milosaurus mccordi (type locality: 81114)