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Apodops pricei

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Caeciliidae

Taxonomy
Apodops pricei was named by Estes and Wake (1972). Its type specimen is DGM 551, a set of vertebrae (trunk vertebra), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Companhia National de Cimento Portland Quarry, which is in a Paleocene/Eocene fissure fill limestone in Brazil.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1972Apodops pricei Estes and Wake p. 229
1981Apodops pricei Estes

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
—Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
—Lissamphibia()
—GymnophionomorphaMarjanović and Laurin 2008
orderGymnophionaRafinesque 1814
—Apoda(Oppel 1810)
familyCaeciliidaeGray 1825
genusApodops
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.

†Apodops pricei Estes and Wake 1972
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Diagnosis
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