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Otischalkia elderae

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Otischalkia elderae was named by Hunt and Lucas (1991). Its type specimen is TMM 31025-263, a limb element (Humerus), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Otis Chalk Quarry 1, SMU Loc. 122, TMM 31025, which is in a Carnian/Norian crevasse splay mudstone/mudstone in the Colorado City Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Otischalkia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1991Otischalkia elderae Hunt and Lucas p. 929
1995Otischalkia elderae Long and Murry

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
RankNameAuthor
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—Rhynchosauria()
—Rhynchosauridae()
—Hyperodapedontinae(Chatterjee 1969)
genusOtischalkia
specieselderae

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.

†Otischalkia elderae Hunt and Lucas 1991
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Diagnosis
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