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Palaeagama vielhaueri

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Palaeagama vielhaueri was named by Broom (1926). Its type specimen is MMK 3707, a partial skeleton (nearly complete specimen), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mount Frere, which is in a Changhsingian/Induan terrestrial sandstone in South Africa. It is the type species of Palaeagama.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1926Palaeagama vielhaueri Broom
1975Palaeagama vielhaueri Carroll
1983Palaeagama vielhaueri Estes pp. 14-15 fig. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Eosuchia()
—Neodiapsida
genusPalaeagama
speciesvielhaueri

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.

†Palaeagama vielhaueri Broom 1926
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Changhsingian to the top of the Induan or 254.17000 to 251.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Changhsingian - Induan254.17 - 251.2South Africa (Eastern Cape) Palaeagama vielhaueri (type locality: 171029)