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Asperoris mnyama

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Asperoris mnyama was named by Nesbitt et al. (2013). Its type specimen is NHMUK PV R36615, a partial skull (Well-preserved incomplete skull including much of the right maxilla, nearly complete right premaxilla, much of the right nasal, ventral process of the postorbit), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is U9/1, drainage of the Hita River, which is in an Anisian fluvial sandstone in the Manda Beds Formation of Tanzania. It is the type species of Asperoris.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2013Asperoris mnyama Nesbitt et al. p. 3 figs. 2-12
2016Asperoris mnyama Ezcurra

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
genusAsperoris
speciesmnyama

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.

Asperoris mnyama Nesbitt et al. 2013
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Anisian or 247.20000 to 242.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Anisian247.2 - 242.0Tanzania (Ruvuma) Asperoris mnyama (type locality: 144368)