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Owenetta rubidgei
Taxonomy
Owenetta rubidgei was named by Broom (1939). Its type specimen is RC 50 (Rubidge Collection, Wellwood Museum, Graaff-Reinet), a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is New Bethesda Commonage, which is in a Wuchiapingian/Changhsingian terrestrial horizon in the Balfour Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Owenetta.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1939 | Owenetta rubidgei Broom p. 319 figs. 1, 2 |
| 1946 | Owenetta rubidgei Colbert p. 260 |
| 2002 | Owenetta rubidgei Reisz and Scott p. 244 figs. 3-5 |
| 2007 | Owenetta rubidgei Modesto and Damiani p. 347 fig. 8 |
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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.
†Owenetta rubidgei Broom 1939
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. R. Reisz and D. Scott 2002 | Small owenettid parareptile characterized by the presence of a shallow depression of the parietal surface surrounding the pineal foramen, presence of a supratemporal that has a lateral notch near the posterior border of the bone. Postcranially, the humerus and femur are long and slender compared to those of Barasaurus, femur equivalent in length to 6.5 dorsal vertebrae, tibia/femur ratio is 0.7. Differs from other procolophonoids in having only slightly, rather than strongly, swollen neural arches. |
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Wuchiapingian or 259.90000 to 254.17000 Ma
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wuchiapingian | South Africa (Eastern Cape) | Owenetta rubidgei (80826 171384) | |
| Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian | South Africa (Eastern Cape) | Owenetta rubidgei (80216 type locality: 80219 89863 174663) | |
| Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian | South Africa (Western Cape) | Owenetta rubidgei (174623) |