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Milleropsis pricei

Reptilia - Millerettidae

Taxonomy
Millerosaurus pricei was named by Watson (1957). Its type specimen is BP/1/720, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Swaelkrans, Murraysburg, which is in a Wuchiapingian/Changhsingian terrestrial mudstone in the Balfour Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Milleropsis.

It was recombined as Milleropsis pricei by Gow (1972).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1957Millerosaurus pricei Watson pp. 326-350 figs. 1-11
1972Milleropsis pricei Gow pp. 222, 262 figs. 21, 22

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassParareptiliaLawrence 1868
familyMillerettidaeRomer 1956
genusMilleropsis
speciespricei()

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.

Milleropsis pricei Watson 1957
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Wuchiapingian to the top of the Changhsingian or 259.90000 to 252.17000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian259.9 - 252.17South Africa (Eastern Cape) Milleropsis pricei (80219)
Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian259.9 - 252.17South Africa (Western Cape) Millerosaurus pricei (type locality: 80176)