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Tritheledon riconoi

Tritheledontidae

Taxonomy
Tritheledon riconoi was named by Broom (1912). Its type specimen is SAM 1885, a mandible, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Paballong, Mount Fletcher (zone B/2), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian terrestrial horizon in the Elliot Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Tritheledon.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1912Tritheledon riconoi Broom

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
familyTritheledontidae
genusTritheledon
speciesriconoi

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.

†Tritheledon riconoi Broom 1912
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Diagnosis
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