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Acroplous

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Eobrachyopidae

Taxonomy
Acroplous was named by Hotton (1959). It is not extant.

It was assigned to Saurerpetontidae by Carroll (1988) and Schoch (2013); and to Eobrachyopidae by Hotton (1959), Yates and Warren (2000) and Schoch and Milner (2014).

Species
A. vorax

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1959Acroplous Hotton
1988Acroplous Carroll
2000Acroplous Yates and Warren pp. 84, 90 fig. 1
2013Acroplous Schoch
2014Acroplous Schoch and Milner p. 35

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
RankNameAuthor
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
—Eutemnospondyli
—Rhachitomi()
—Dvinosauria
superfamilyDvinosauroideaSäve-Söderbergh 1935
familyEobrachyopidaeShishkin 1964
genusAcroplous

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.

G. †Acroplous Hotton 1959
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†Acroplous vorax Hotton 1959
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available