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Acroplous vorax

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Eobrachyopidae

Taxonomy
Acroplous vorax was named by Hotton (1959). Its type specimen is KUVP 28352, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Keats, Riley County, which is in a Sakmarian terrestrial shale in the Speiser Shale Formation of Kansas.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1959Acroplous vorax Hotton
2013Acroplous vorax Schoch
2014Acroplous vorax Schoch and Milner p. 36

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
Eutemnospondyli
Rhachitomi()
Dvinosauria
superfamilyDvinosauroideaSäve-Söderbergh 1935
familyEobrachyopidaeShishkin 1964
genusAcroplous
speciesvorax

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.

Acroplous vorax Hotton 1959
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: brackish, freshwater, terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilesubo
Life habit: amphibioussubo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Dispersal: waterc
Created: 2009-07-20 21:44:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:44:54
Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Uhen 2004, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Asselian to the top of the Sakmarian or 298.90000 to 290.10000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Asselian298.9 - 295.5USA (Nebraska) Acroplous vorax (162676 179620)
Sakmarian293.52 - 290.1USA (Kansas) Acroplous vorax (type locality: 179595 180979)