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Prolacerta broomi

Reptilia - Prolacertidae

Taxonomy
Prolacerta broomi was named by Parrington (1935). Its type specimen is UMZC 2003.40, a partial skull (incl. mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Harrismith Commonage, which is in an Induan/Olenekian terrestrial horizon in the Normandien Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Prolacerta.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1935Prolacerta broomi Parrington
1948Pricea longiceps Broom and Robinson
1980Prolacerta broomi Chatterjee p. 197
1986Prolacerta broomi Chatterjee p. 309
2004Prolacerta broomi Modesto and Sues
2011Prolacerta broomi Nesbitt p. 15
2016Prolacerta broomi Ezcurra

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
familyProlacertidaeParrington 1935
genusProlacertaParrington 1935
speciesbroomiParrington 1935

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.

†Prolacerta broomi Parrington 1935
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Invalid names: Pricea longiceps Broom and Robinson 1948 [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: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Induan or 252.17000 to 251.20000 Ma

Collections (11 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Induan252.17 - 251.2South Africa (Free State) Prolacerta broomi (105608)
Early/Lower Triassic252.17 - 247.2Antarctica Prolacerta broomi (27266 87410 87414 87420)
Early/Lower Triassic252.17 - 247.2South Africa (Eastern Cape) Pricea longiceps (105606)
Early/Lower Triassic252.17 - 247.2South Africa (Free State) Prolacerta broomi (105609)
Early/Lower Triassic252.17 - 247.2South Africa (East Cape) Prolacerta broomi (188978)
Induan - Olenekian252.17 - 247.2South Africa (Free State) Prolacerta broomi (type locality: 88282 98602 105607)