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Aulacocephalodon rubidgei

Anomodontia

Taxonomy
Aulacocephalodon rubidgei was named by Broom (1940). Its type specimen is RC 24, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Wimbledon, which is in a Wuchiapingian terrestrial horizon in South Africa.

It was recombined as Aulacephalodon rubidgei by Broom (1940) and Haughton (1965).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1940Aulacocephalodon rubidgei Broom p. 85 fig. 13
1940Aulacephalodon rubidgei Broom p. 203 fig. 13
1965Aulacephalodon rubidgei Haughton

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
orderAnomodontiaOwen 1859
genusAulacocephalodon()
speciesrubidgei

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: herbivoreo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:33:20
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:33:20
Source: o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Benton 1983, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988
Collections
No collection or age range data are available