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Kitchingnathus untabeni

Reptilia - Procolophonidae

Taxonomy
Kitchingnathus untabeni was named by Cisneros (2008). Its type specimen is BP/1/1187, a partial skeleton (skull and jaw, some ribs, parts of girdles, sacral vertebrae), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hobbs Hill, which is in an Olenekian fluvial sandstone in the Katberg Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Kitchingnathus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2008Kitchingnathus untabeni Cisneros p. 127 figs. 2, 3

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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
superfamilyProcolophonoidea
familyProcolophonidae
genusKitchingnathus
speciesuntabeni

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.

Kitchingnathus untabeni Cisneros 2008
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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: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Olenekian or 251.20000 to 247.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Olenekian251.2 - 247.2South Africa (Eastern Cape) Kitchingnathus untabeni (type locality: 92309)