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Araeoscelis casei

Reptilia - Araeoscelidae

Taxonomy
Ophiodeirus casei was named by Broom (1913). Its type specimen is AMNH 4685, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mouth of Godwin Creek, which is in an Artinskian terrestrial conglomerate in the Nocona Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Ophiodeirus.

It was recombined as Araeoscelis casei by Vaughn (1955).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1913Ophiodeirus casei Broom p. 510
1930Ophiodeirus casei Hay p. 37
1955Araeoscelis casei Vaughn p. 307

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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)
familyAraeoscelidae
genusAraeoscelis
speciescasei()

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.

†Araeoscelis casei Broom 1913
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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: Artinskian or 290.10000 to 279.30000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Artinskian290.1 - 279.3USA (Texas) Bolosaurus striatus (type locality: 13044)
Artinskian - Kungurian290.1 - 272.3USA (Texas) Araeoscelis casei (28250)