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Chometokadmon fitzingeri

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Chometokadmon fitzingeri was named by Costa (1864). Its type specimen is MPN 539, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Civita di Pietraroja (upper plattenkalk), which is in an Albian basinal (carbonate) mudstone/wackestone in Italy.

Synonyms
  • Lacerta brevicauda was named by Costa (1866).

    It was synonymized subjectively with Chometokadmon fitzingeri by D'Erasmo (1915).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1864Chometokadmon fitzingeri Costa p. 15
1866Lacerta brevicauda Costa
1914Chometokadmon fitzingeri D'Erasmo p. 47 figs. Pl 4; pl 5, fig 1
1991Chometokadmon fitzingeri Barbera and Macuglia p. 421
2006Chometokadmon fitzingeri Evans and Raia p. 674

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
—Squamata()
—Anguimorpha(Fürbringer 1900)
genusChometokadmon
speciesfitzingeri

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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Invalid names: Lacerta brevicauda Costa 1866 [synonym]
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: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Early/Lower Albian or 112.03000 to 109.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Albian112.03 - 109.0Italy (Campania) Chometokadmon fitzingeri (type locality: 112631)