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Adololopas moyasmithae

Dipnoi

Taxonomy
Adololopas moyasmithae was named by Campbell and Barwick (1998) [Endocranium poorly ossified. Dermal roofing bones not tightly sutured together, cosmine covered; bone B long and narrow, and with scalloped margins; bone I transmitting a lateral line canal from Yi to bone Z; no Y2 preserved, but judging from the position of 8 and the shape of the opercular, it must have been present; bones 4, 5 and 8 unusually long for a tooth-plated form of this age; snout well-ossified. Adult pterygoidal tooth-plates thick, with an open median suture and with 6-7 rows of teeth; new conical teeth added at ends of rows, and mounted directly on bone; mandibular tooth plates showing teeth added sufficiently deeply to be out of occlusion but growing up into occlusion as they increase in size; adult tooth-plates with thin primitive dentine and serrated edges along the posterior margins; palatal tooth-plates concave, and mandibular plates convex. Juvenile tooth-plates with six or seven rows of sharp teeth; continuous rings of enamel- or enameloid-covered primitive dentine around the posterior, lateral and mesial edges. Parasphenoid with ploughshare shape, pointed posterior extremity and closed buccohypophysial canal lying in its anterior keel. Dentary narrow; angular bone with a deep notch posteriorly for articulation of the surangular. Body short and rapidly tapering; scales similar in form to those of Chirodiptenis australis, but their size diminishes rapidly towards the tail and the dorsal margin.]. It is not extant. Its type specimen is ANU 49213, a partial skeleton (an incomplete specimen with part of the skull preserved). Its type locality is Paddys Valley, which is in a Frasnian intrashelf/intraplatform reef lime mudstone/shale in the Gogo Formation of Australia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1998Adololopas moyasmithae Campbell and Barwick

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
RankNameAuthor
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
orderDipnoi(Müller 1884)
suborderSpeonesydrioninaCampbell and Barwick 1990
genusAdololopas
speciesmoyasmithae

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.

Adololopas moyasmithae Campbell and Barwick 1998
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2009-07-20 21:50:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:50:54
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Frasnian or 382.70000 to 372.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Frasnian382.7 - 372.2Australia (Western Australia) Adololopas moyasmithae (type locality: 136090)