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Amphilestes broderipii

Mammalia - Amphilestidae

Taxonomy
Amphitherium broderipii was named by Owen (1846). Its type specimen is Yorkshire Museum, a mandible (left mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Stonesfield Slate quarries, which is in a Bathonian marginal marine sandstone in the Taynton Limestone Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Amphilestes broderipii by Owen (1859), Owen (1871), Simpson (1928), Jenkins and Crompton (1979), Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004) and Butler and Sigogneau-Russel (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1846Amphitherium broderipii Owen
1859Amphilestes broderipii Owen p. 158
1871Amphilestes broderipii Owen p. 15 figs. Pl. 1 fig. 25
1928Amphilestes broderipii Simpson p. 71
1979Amphilestes broderipii Jenkins and Crompton p. 75
2004Amphilestes broderipii Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 219, 237-238
2016Amphilestes broderipii Butler and Sigogneau-Russel p. 45

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
familyAmphilestidae(Osborn 1888)
genusAmphilestes
speciesbroderipii(Owen 1846)

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.

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Diagnosis
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