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Inostrancevia alexandri

Inostranceviidae

Taxonomy
Inostrancevia alexandri was named by Amalitski (1922). Its type specimen is PIN 2005/1578, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sokolki locality, PIN 2005, which is in a Severodvinian/Vyatkian terrestrial horizon in the Salarevo Formation of the Russian Federation.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1922Inostrancevia alexandri Amalitski
1927Inostrancevia proclivis Pravoslavlev
1989Inostrancevia alexandri Sigogneau-Russell
2000Inostrancevia alexandri Battail and Surkov
2003Inostrancevia alexandri Ivakhnenko

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
suborderGorgonopsia
infraorderGorgonopida
superfamilyRubidgeoideaBroom 1938
familyInostranceviidaeHuene 1948
genusInostranceviaAmalitski 1922
speciesalexandriAmalitski 1922

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.

†Inostrancevia alexandri Amalitski 1922
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Invalid names: Inostrancevia proclivis Pravoslavlev 1927 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: carnivoresubo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:34:07
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:34:07
Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Benton 1983, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Severodvinian to the top of the Vyatkian or 264.28000 to 257.40000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Severodvinian - Vyatkian264.28 - 257.4Russian Federation (Arkhangelsk) Inostrancevia alexandri, Inostrancevia proclivis (type locality: 28065)