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Australochelys africanus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Australochelys africanus was named by Gaffney and Kitching (1994). Its type specimen is BP/1/4933, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is farm Bormansdrift (133) ("middle" Elliot), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian terrestrial sandstone in the Elliot Formation of South Africa.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Australochelys africanus Gaffney and Kitching
1995Australochelys africanus Gaffney and Kitching
2000Australochelys africanus de Lapparent de Broin
2008Australochelys africanus Danilov and Parham
2013Australochelys africanus Pérez-García and Murelaga
2017Australochelys africanus Joyce

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
—Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
genusAustralochelys
speciesafricanus

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.

†Australochelys africanus Gaffney and Kitching 1994
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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: base of the Hettangian to the top of the Sinemurian or 201.30000 to 190.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.3 - 190.8South Africa (Free State) Chelonia indet. (type locality: 101830)