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Oestocephalus nanum

Oestocephalidae

Taxonomy
Ophiderpeton nanum was named by Hancock and Atthey (1868). Its type specimen is Hancock Museum G25.34, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hannah Pit, Newsham, which is in a Bashkirian terrestrial coal in the Middle Coal Measures Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Oestocephalus nanum by Milner (1994).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1868Ophiderpeton nanum Hancock and Atthey
1994Oestocephalus nanum Milner
1998Ophiderpeton nanum Carroll et al. p. 180

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
RankNameAuthor
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
suborderAistopoda
familyOestocephalidae
genusOestocephalus
speciesnanum(Hancock and Atthey 1868)

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.

†Oestocephalus nanum Hancock and Atthey 1868
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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: Bashkirian or 323.20000 to 315.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bashkirian323.2 - 315.2United Kingdom (England) Ophiderpeton nanum (type locality: 177139)