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Deltaherpeton hiemstrae

Colosteidae

Taxonomy
Deltaherpeton hiemstrae was named by Bolt and Lombard (2010). Its type specimen is FMNH PR 1637, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Delta, which is in an Asbian sinkhole horizon in the St. Louis Formation of Iowa. It is the type species of Deltaherpeton.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2010Deltaherpeton hiemstrae Bolt and Lombard p. 1136 figs. 1-3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
RankNameAuthor
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
familyColosteidae
genusDeltaherpeton
specieshiemstrae

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.

†Deltaherpeton hiemstrae Bolt and Lombard 2010
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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: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Asbian or 340.00000 to 336.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Asbian340.0 - 336.0USA (Iowa) Deltaherpeton hiemstrae (type locality: 68318)