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Xenobrachyops allos

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Brachyopidae

Taxonomy
Brachyops allos was named by Howie (1972). Its type specimen is QM F6572, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Duckworth Creek, SW of Bluff, QML 215, which is in an Induan terrestrial mudstone in the Arcadia Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Xenobrachyops.

It was recombined as Xenobrachyops allos by Warren and Hutchinson (1983) and Warren and Marsicano (2000).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1972Brachyops allos Howie p. 270
1983Xenobrachyops allos Warren and Hutchinson p. 59
2000Xenobrachyops allos Warren and Marsicano p. 468

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
—Eutemnospondyli
—Rhachitomi()
—Eryopiformes
—Stereospondylomorpha
—Stereospondyli()
superfamilyBrachyopoideaLydekker 1885
familyBrachyopidae
genusXenobrachyops
speciesallos()

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.

†Xenobrachyops allos Howie 1972
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Diagnosis
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