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Thelerpeton oppressus
Taxonomy
Thelegnathus oppressus was named by Gow (1977). Its type specimen is BP/1/4538 (formerly BPI 155), a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hugoskop, Rouxville District, which is in an Anisian dry floodplain siliciclastic in the Burgersdorp Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Thelerpeton.
It was recombined as Thelerpeton oppressus by Modesto and Damiani (2003).
It was recombined as Thelerpeton oppressus by Modesto and Damiani (2003).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1977 | Thelegnathus oppressus Gow p. 111 figs. 2, 3, 4A+B, 8A+C |
| 2003 | Thelerpeton oppressus Modesto and Damiani p. 58 fig. 2 |
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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.
†Thelerpeton oppressus Gow 1977
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| C. E. Gow 1977 | Molar teeth bulbous at the base with the crowns pinched up to present a
small occlusal area. | |
| S.P. Modesto and R. J. Damiani 2003 | A procolophonid reptile with bulbous marginal teeth "with the crowns pinched up to present a small occlusal area (Gow, 1977, p. 112)", and dentary dentition that is undercut labially by a continuous, longitudinal sulcus. |
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||