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Morganucodon oehleri

Morganucodonta - Morganucodontidae

Taxonomy
Morganucodon oehleri was named by Rigney (1963). Its type specimen is UCL, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Yang Tsao Ti, Lufeng (lower), which is in a Hettangian terrestrial claystone in the Lufeng Formation of China.

It was recombined as Eozostrodon oehleri by Jenkins and Crompton (1979).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1963Morganucodon oehleri Rigney pp. 1122-1123 fig. 1
1979Eozostrodon oehleri Jenkins and Crompton p. 75
1995Morganucodon oehleri Luo et al.
2004Morganucodon oehleri Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 165, 174-176

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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
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
orderMorganucodontaKermack et al. 1973
familyMorganucodontidae
genusMorganucodon
speciesoehleri

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.

†Morganucodon oehleri Rigney 1963
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Diagnosis
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