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Desmatodon hesperis

Diadectidae

Taxonomy
Desmatodon hesperis was named by Vaughn (1969). Its type specimen is UCLA VP 1706, a maxilla, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Badger Creek, Fremont County, which is in a Missourian fluvial-lacustrine shale in the Sangre de Cristo Formation of Colorado.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1969Desmatodon hesperis Vaughn p. 11

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
RankNameAuthor
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Diadectomorpha(Watson 1917)
familyDiadectidae
genusDesmatodonCase 1908
specieshesperis

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.

†Desmatodon hesperis Vaughn 1969
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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: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Missourian or 306.00000 to 303.70000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Missourian306.0 - 303.7USA (Colorado) Desmatodon hesperis (type locality: 180938)