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Anningia megalops
Taxonomy
Anningia megalops was named by Broom (1927). Its type specimen is TMP N. 4024, a partial skull (current condition: skull table, right orbital and postorbital regions, posterior half of right mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bloukrans (Prince Albert District), which is in a Capitanian terrestrial horizon in the Abrahamskraal Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Anningia.
It was considered a nomen vanum by Reisz and Dilkes (1992).
It was considered a nomen vanum by Reisz and Dilkes (1992).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1927 | Anningia megalops Broom p. 227 |
| 1940 | Anningia megalops Romer and Price pp. 18, 280 fig. 4 |
| 1986 | Anningia megalops Reisz p. 86 |
| 2018 | Anningia megalops Spindler et al. |
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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.
†Anningia megalops Broom 1927
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Capitanian or 264.28000 to 259.51000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Capitanian | South Africa (Western Cape) | Anningia megalops (type locality: 89650) |