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Micropholis stowi

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Amphibamidae

Taxonomy
Micropholis stowi was named by Huxley (1859). Its type specimen is BMNH R.4382, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Rhenosterberg (Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone), which is in an Induan terrestrial siliciclastic in the Katberg Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Micropholis.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1859Micropholis stowi Huxley
1876Petrophryne granulata Owen
1925Micropholis stowi Haughton p. 237
2003Micropholis stowi Damiani and Rubidge p. 23
2005Micropholis stowi Schoch and Rubidge p. 503
2013Micropholis stowi Schoch

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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()
—Dissorophoidea()
—Xerodromes
—Amphibamiformes
familyAmphibamidae
genusMicropholis
speciesstowi

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.

†Micropholis stowi Huxley 1859
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Invalid names: Petrophryne granulata Owen 1876 [synonym]
Diagnosis
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