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Arctognathus cookei

Gorgonopidae

Taxonomy
Cyniscops cookei was named by Broom (1948). Its type specimen is BP/1/648, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Petersburg, which is in a Wuchiapingian terrestrial horizon in South Africa.

It was recombined as Arctognathus cookei by Sigogneau-Russell (1989).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1948Cyniscops cookei Broom
1989Arctognathus cookei Sigogneau-Russell

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
suborderGorgonopsia
familyGorgonopidae(Lydekker 1890)
subfamilyGorgonopsinaeSigogneau-Russell 1970
genusArctognathus
speciescookei()

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.

Arctognathus cookei Broom 1948
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Diagnosis
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