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Lysipterygium risinense

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Lysipterygiidae

Taxonomy
Actinodon risinensis was named by Wadia and Swinton (1928). It is not extant. Its type specimen is GSI 14046, a skull. Its type locality is Risin Spur (Gangamopteris Shales), which is in an Asselian/Sakmarian terrestrial shale in India.

It was recombined as Lysipterygium risinense by Branson (1935) and Schoch and Milner (2000).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1928Actinodon risinensis Wadia and Swinton
1935Lysipterygium detarrai Branson
1935Lysipterygium risinense Branson
2000Lysipterygium risinense Schoch and Milner p. 47

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
RankNameAuthor
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
familyLysipterygiidaeBranson 1935
genusLysipterygiumBranson 1935
speciesrisinense(Wadia and Swinton 1928)

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.

Lysipterygium risinense Wadia and Swinton 1928
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Invalid names: Lysipterygium detarrai Branson 1935 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: brackish, freshwater, terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilesubo
Life habit: amphibioussubo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Dispersal: waterc
Created: 2009-07-20 21:44:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:44:54
Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Uhen 2004

Age range: base of the Asselian to the top of the Sakmarian or 298.90000 to 290.10000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Asselian - Sakmarian298.9 - 290.1India (Kashmir) Actinodon risinensis (27263)