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Euparkeria capensis

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Euparkeria capensis was named by Broom (1913). Its type specimen is SAM 5867, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Euparkeria site, Aliwal North, which is in an Anisian dry floodplain sandstone in the Burgersdorp Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Euparkeria.

Synonyms
  • Browniella africana was named by Broom (1913). Its type specimen is SAM 6047B, a partial skeleton (vertebral column, pelvis and femur, parts of shoulder girdle), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Euparkeria site, Aliwal North, which is in an Anisian dry floodplain sandstone in the Burgersdorp Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Browniella.

    It was synonymized subjectively with Euparkeria capensis by Ewer (1965).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1913Euparkeria capensis Broom
1913Browniella africana Broom p. 627 figs. Pl. 79:21
1922Browniella africana Huene p. 22
1922Euparkeria capensis Huene p. 22
1965Euparkeria capensis Ewer p. 379
1967Euparkeria capensis Charig p. 708
2003Euparkeria capensis Rauhut p. 12
2011Euparkeria capensis Nesbitt p. 18
2016Euparkeria capensis 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
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
genusEuparkeriaBroom 1913
speciescapensisBroom 1913

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.

Euparkeria capensis Broom 1913
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Invalid names: Browniella africana Broom 1913 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available