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Geikia elginensis

Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae

Taxonomy
Geikia elginensis was named by Newton (1893). Its type specimen is GSM 90998-91015, a skull, and it is a mold. Its type locality is Cutties Hillock Millstone Quarry, which is in a Changhsingian fluvial sandstone in the Cutties Hillock Sandstone Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Geikia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1893Geikia elginensis Newton p. 466 figs. Pl. 36

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
orderAnomodontiaOwen 1859
familyCryptodontidae()
—Geikiidae()
—Geikiinae()
genusGeikia
specieselginensis

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.

†Geikia elginensis Newton 1893
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Diagnosis
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