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Agomphus alabamensis

Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea

Taxonomy
Agomphus alabamensis was named by Gilmore (1919). Its type specimen is USNM 8806, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Moscow Bluff [Porters Creek], which is in a Paleocene coastal siliciclastic in the Porters Creek Formation of Alabama.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1919Agomphus alabamensis Gilmore p. 123 figs. Pl. 35
1930Agomphus alabamensis Hay p. 90
1981Agomphus alabamensis Thurmond and Jones p. 122
1998Agomphus alabamensis Hutchison and Weems p. 174
2016Agomphus alabamensis Joyce and Bourque

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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
—Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
orderTestudinesBatsch 1788
suborderCryptodira
superfamilyTrionychoideaFitzinger 1826
familyKinosternoidea()
—PandermatemysJoyce et al. 2004
genusAgomphus
speciesalabamensis

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.

†Agomphus alabamensis Gilmore 1919
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Diagnosis
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