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Eucritta melanolimnetes

Taxonomy
Eucritta melanolimnetes was named by Clack (1998). It is not extant. Its type locality is East Kirkton Quarry, which is in a Visean terrestrial limestone in the Bathgate Hills Volcanic Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Eucritta.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1998Eucritta melanolimnetes Clack

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
RankNameAuthor
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
superfamilyBaphetoideaCope 1875
genusEucritta
speciesmelanolimnetes

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
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: brackish, freshwater, terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:19
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:19
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Visean or 346.70000 to 330.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Visean346.7 - 330.9United Kingdom (Scotland) Eucritta melanolimnetes (type locality: 174420)