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Thaumastosaurus bottii

Amphibia - Temnospondyli

Taxonomy
Thaumastosaurus bottii was named by De Stefano (1903). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Phosphorites du Quercy (for taxa with non-specific locality data), which is in an Eocene/Miocene terrestrial phosphorite in the Quercy Phosphorites Formation of France.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
T. sulcatus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1903Thaumastosaurus bottii De Stefano

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
RankNameAuthor
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
—Lissamphibia()
—Batrachia(Macartney 1802)
orderSalientia
orderAnura()
genusThaumastosaurusDe Stefano 1903
speciesbottiiDe Stefano 1903

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.

†Thaumastosaurus bottii De Stefano 1903
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available