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Phlegethontia

Phlegethontiidae

Taxonomy

Phlegethontia was named by Cope (1871). It is not extant. Its type is Phlegethontia linearis.

It was assigned to Molgophidae by Hay (1902); to Dolichosomidae by Gregory (1948); to Phlegethontiidae by McGinnis (1967), Lund (1978), Thayer (1985), Carroll (1988), Carroll et al. (1998) and Anderson (2002); and to Aistopoda by Maddin et al. (2012).

Species

P. linearis (type species), P. longissima (syn. P. serpens, Aornerpeton mazonensis), P. phanerhapha

Synonyms

Aornerpeton was named by Lund (1978). It is not extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Phlegethontia by Anderson (2002).

It was assigned to Phlegethontiidae by Lund (1978) and Carroll et al. (1998).
Phlegethontia phanerhapha was named by Thayer (1985). Its type specimen is UALP 5154, a partial skull (posterior braincase with parts of occiput), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Swisshelm Mts. amphibian site, which is in a Westphalian A/Westphalian B shallow subtidal limestone in the Black Prince Limestone Formation of Arizona.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Anderson (2002).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1871	Phlegethontia Cope p. 177
1902	Phlegethontia Hay p. 411
1948	Phlegethontia Gregory pp. 636, 663
1967	Phlegethontia McGinnis p. 2
1978	Phlegethontia Lund p. 55
1978	Aornerpeton Lund p. 61 figs. 8-10
1985	Phlegethontia Thayer p. 688
1985	Phlegethontia phanerhapha Thayer p. 688 fig. 4
1988	Phlegethontia Carroll
1998	Aornerpeton Carroll et al. p. 181
1998	Phlegethontia Carroll et al. p. 181
1998	Phlegethontia phanerhapha Carroll et al. p. 181
2002	Phlegethontia Anderson p. 1031
2012	Phlegethontia Maddin et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
suborder	Aistopoda
family	Phlegethontiidae
genus	Phlegethontia

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.

G. †Phlegethontia Cope 1871

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†Phlegethontia linearis Cope 1871

†Phlegethontia longissima Fritsch 1875

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Invalid names: Aornerpeton mazonensis Gregory 1948 [synonym], Phlegethontia serpens Cope 1871 [synonym]

Invalid names: Aornerpeton Lund 1978 [synonym], Phlegethontia phanerhapha Thayer 1985 [nomen dubium]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available