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Rhombopholis scutulata

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Labyrinthodon scutulatus was named by Owen (1842). Its type specimen is WARMS Gz10, a set of vertebrae, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Old Leamington Quarry, which is in a Triassic terrestrial sandstone in the Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Rhombopholis scutulata by Owen (1866) and Benton and Walker (1996).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1841Labyrinthodon scutulatus Owen
1842Labyrinthodon scutulatus Owen p. 188
1859Labyrinthodon scutulatus Owen p. 137
1861Labyrinthodon scutulatus Owen p. 210
1866Rhombopholis scutulata Owen
1996Rhombopholis scutulata Benton and Walker

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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
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Prolacertiformes(Camp 1945)
genusRhombopholisOwen 1866
speciesscutulata()

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.

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Diagnosis
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