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Scalenodon attridgei

Traversodontidae

Taxonomy
Scalenodon attridgei was named by Crompton (1972). Its type specimen is BMNH R8578, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is U2, next to Peramiko-Litumba dirt road, which is in an Anisian fluvial siliciclastic in the Manda Beds Formation of Tanzania.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1972Scalenodon attridgei Crompton p. 43

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Epicynodontia
infraorderCynognathia
—Gomphodontia(Seeley 1895)
familyTraversodontidaeHuene 1936
genusScalenodon
speciesattridgei

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.

†Scalenodon attridgei Crompton 1972
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Diagnosis
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