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Rubricacaecilia monbaroni

Amphibia - Temnospondyli

Taxonomy
Rubricacaecilia monbaroni was named by Evans and Sigogneau-Russell (2001). Its type specimen is MCM 171, a mandible (right pseudodentary), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ksar Met-Lili, Anoual, which is in a Tithonian/Berriasian deltaic sandstone in the Ksar Metlili Formation of Morocco. It is the type species of Rubricacaecilia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2001Rubricacaecilia monbaroni Evans and Sigogneau-Russell pp. 260-261 figs. 1-7

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
RankNameAuthor
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
Lissamphibia()
GymnophionomorphaMarjanović and Laurin 2008
genusRubricacaecilia
speciesmonbaroni

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Rubricacaecilia monbaroni Evans and Sigogneau-Russell 2001
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
S. E. Evans and D. Sigogneau-Russell 2001A small (c. 200 mm) primitive caecilian characterised by the combination of the following features: a pseudodentary with c. 28 narrow and close-packed pedicellate teeth, a long closure of the Meckelian fossa (up to tooth position 24), subdivision of the posterior Meckelian fossa by a horizontal shelf, only two teeth in the splenial tooth row, palatine teeth blade-like; internal process of pseudangular small; vertebrae with prominent anterior basapophyses, but lacking enlarged anteroventral basapophyseal process.