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Gerobatrachus hottoni

Amphibia - Temnospondyli

Taxonomy
Gerobatrachus hottoni was named by Anderson et al. (2008). Its type specimen is USNM 489135, a partial skeleton (stylopods, zeugopods, and ventral portions of the skull and pectoral girdle are missing), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is USNM Locality 40971, which is in a Kungurian terrestrial siltstone in the Arroyo or Vale Formation of Texas.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2008Gerobatrachus hottoni Anderson et al. p. 515 figs. 1-3
2013Gerobatrachus hottoni Schoch

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
—Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
—Eutemnospondyli
—Rhachitomi()
—Dissorophoidea()
—Xerodromes
—Amphibamiformes
genusGerobatrachus
specieshottoni

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.

†Gerobatrachus hottoni Anderson et al. 2008
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Diagnosis
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