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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

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.

†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.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: brackish, freshwater, terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilesubo
Life habit: amphibioussubo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Dispersal: waterc
Created: 2009-07-20 21:44:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:44:54
Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Carroll 1988, Uhen 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Tithonian to the top of the Early/Lower Berriasian or 150.80000 to 140.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Tithonian - Early/Lower Berriasian150.8 - 140.2Morocco (Oriental) Gymnophiona indet. (type locality: 45726)