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Eldeceeon rolfei

Taxonomy
Eldeceeon rolfei was named by Smithson (1993). Its type specimen is NMS G 1986.39.1, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is East Kirkton Quarry, which is in a Visean terrestrial limestone in the Bathgate Hills Volcanic Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Eldeceeon.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1993Eldeceeon rolfei Smithson p. 377 figs. 1-3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
RankNameAuthor
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
genusEldeceeon
speciesrolfei

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.

Eldeceeon rolfei Smithson 1993
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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: Visean or 346.70000 to 330.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Visean346.7 - 330.9United Kingdom (Scotland) Eldeceeon rolfei (type locality: 174420)