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Siderops kehli

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Chigutisauridae

Taxonomy
Siderops kehli was named by Warren and Hutchinson (1983). Its type specimen is QM F7882, a skeleton (Almost complete skull with mandible and attached postcranium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kolane Station, west of Kennedy Peak, which is in a Pliensbachian/Toarcian lacustrine - small ironstone/sandstone in the Evergreen Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Siderops.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1983Siderops kehli Warren and Hutchinson p. 5 figs. 1-23, 28-31, 33-34
2000Siderops kehli Schoch and Milner p. 88
2000Siderops kehli Warren and Marsicano p. 471
2023Siderops kehli Poropat et al. p. 145

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
—Eutemnospondyli
—Rhachitomi()
—Eryopiformes
—Stereospondylomorpha
—Stereospondyli()
superfamilyBrachyopoideaLydekker 1885
familyChigutisauridaeRusconi 1951
genusSiderops
specieskehli

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.

†Siderops kehli Warren and Hutchinson 1983
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: brackish, freshwater, terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilesubo
Life habit: amphibioussubo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Dispersal: waterc
Created: 2009-07-20 21:44:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:44:54
Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Carroll 1988, Uhen 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Pliensbachian to the top of the Toarcian or 192.90000 to 174.70000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Pliensbachian - Toarcian192.9 - 174.7Australia (Queensland) Brachyopidae indet. (type locality: 77179)