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Garjainia madiba

Reptilia - Erythrosuchidae

Taxonomy
Garjainia madiba was named by Gower et al. (2014). Its type specimen is BP/1/5760, a partial skull (Right postorbital, right postfrontal and partial frontal in articulation; ventral end of left postorbital; left jugal; right paroccipital process with partial s), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Driefontein, which is in an Olenekian fluvial siliciclastic in the Burgersdorp Formation of South Africa.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2014Garjainia madiba Gower et al.
2016Garjainia madiba Ezcurra

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
familyErythrosuchidae
genusGarjainiaOchev 1958
speciesmadiba

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.

Garjainia madiba Gower et al. 2014
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Olenekian or 251.20000 to 247.20000 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Olenekian251.2 - 247.2South Africa (Free State) Garjainia madiba (98611 98613 98616 type locality: 98617 182942 182943 182944)