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Petrolacosaurus

Reptilia - Petrolacosauridae

Taxonomy
Petrolacosaurus was named by Lane (1945). It is not extant. Its type is Petrolacosaurus kansensis. It is the type genus of Petrolacosauridae.

It was assigned to Pelycosauria by Lane (1945); and to Petrolacosauridae by Peabody (1952), Reisz (1977), Chatterjee (1980), Benton (1985) and Carroll (1988).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1945Petrolacosaurus Lane p. 381
1945Podargosaurus Lane p. 385 fig. 3
1952Petrolacosaurus Peabody p. 5
1977Petrolacosaurus Reisz p. 1093
1980Petrolacosaurus Chatterjee p. 197
1985Petrolacosaurus Benton p. 153
1988Petrolacosaurus Carroll

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Araeoscelidia(Williston 1913)
familyPetrolacosauridae
genusPetrolacosaurus

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.

G. †Petrolacosaurus Lane 1945
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Invalid names: Podargosaurus hibbardi Lane 1945 [synonym]
Invalid names: Podargosaurus Lane 1945 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Missourian or 306.00000 to 303.70000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Missourian306.0 - 303.7USA (Kansas) P. kansensis, Podargosaurus hibbardi (80784)