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Dasyceps bucklandi

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Zatracheidae

Taxonomy
Labyrinthodon bucklandi was named by Lloyd (1850). Its type specimen is Warwick Museum Gz 42, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kenilworth, which is in an Asselian fluvial siliciclastic in the Kenilworth Sandstone Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Dasyceps.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Welles and Cosgriff (1965); it was recombined as Dasyceps bucklandi by Huxley (1859) and Paton (1975).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1850Labyrinthodon bucklandi Lloyd
1859Dasyceps bucklandi Huxley
1861Labyrinthodon bucklandi Owen p. 216
1975Dasyceps bucklandi Paton

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
RankNameAuthor
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
Eutemnospondyli
Rhachitomi()
familyZatracheidaeWilliston 1910
genusDasycepsHuxley 1859
speciesbucklandi(Lloyd 1850)

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.

Dasyceps bucklandi Lloyd 1850
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Diagnosis
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