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Captorhinikos parvus

Reptilia - Captorhinidae

Taxonomy
Captorhinikos parvus was named by Olson (1970). Its type specimen is FMNH UR 1250, a skull (skull and part of right lower jaw), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Norman, which is in a Kungurian fluvial-lacustrine shale/shale in the Hennessey Formation of Oklahoma.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1970Captorhinikos parvus Olson p. 415 figs. 12, 13C

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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
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
familyCaptorhinidae
subfamilyMoradisaurinae
genusCaptorhinikos
speciesparvus

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.

†Captorhinikos parvus Olson 1970
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available