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Rhipaeosaurus tricuspidens

Osteichthyes - Nycteroleteridae

Taxonomy
Rhipaeosaurus tricuspidens was named by Efremov (1940). Its type specimen is PIN 164/2, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Belebei, PIN 164, which is in an Urzhumian fluvial sandstone in the Belebei Formation of the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1940Rhipaeosaurus tricuspidens Efremov p. 413 fig. 1
1955Rhipaeosaurus tricuspidens Chudinov p. 913
1962Rhipaeosaurus tricuspidens Olson p. 22
2008Rhipaeosaurus tricuspidens Ivakhnenko
2012Rhipaeosaurus tricuspidens Tsuji et al. p. 56

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassParareptiliaLawrence 1868
Procolophonomorpha()
Nyctiphruretia
familyNycteroleteridaeRomer 1956
genusRhipaeosaurus
speciestricuspidens

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Urzhumian or 266.90000 to 264.28000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Urzhumian266.9 - 264.28Russian Federation (Bashkortostan) Rhipaeosaurus tricuspidens (type locality: 27341)