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Platystega ✝

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)37134https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=37134
Rankgenus (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Platystegidae : Platystega
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-Temnospondyli
-EutemnospondyliSchoch 2013
-Rhachitomi
-EryopiformesSchoch 2013
-StereospondylomorphaYates and Warren 2000
-Stereospondyli
-TrematosauriaYates and Warren 2000
superfamilyTrematosauroideaWatson 1919
familyPlatystegidaeSchoch and Milner 2000
genusPlatystegaWiman 1914
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Platystegagenusbelongs to Trematosauridaestated with evidenceWatson, 1919
Platystegagenusbelongs to Lyrocephalinaestated with evidenceSäve-Söderbergh, 1935
Platystegagenusbelongs to Trematosauridaestated with evidenceWarren and Black, 1985
Platystegagenusbelongs to TrematosauridaeimpliedCarroll, 1988
Platystegagenusbelongs to Platystegidaestated with evidenceSchoch and Milner, 2000
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)2
First Recorded Appearance251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
Last Recorded Appearance251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
Environmentbrackish,freshwater,terrestrial (based on Tetrapoda)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Temnospondyli)
Dietcarnivore (based on Temnospondyli)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)C. Wiman. 1914. Über die Stegocephalen aus der Trias Spitzbergens. Bulletin of the Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala 13:1-34

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Platystega depressa ✝
species		listed (PBDB)1251 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic		251 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1914Platystega Wiman
1919Platystega Watson p. 67
1935Platystega Säve-Söderbergh p. 163
1985Platystega Warren and Black
1988Platystega Carroll
2000Platystega Schoch and Milner p. 117

References

Wiman C. (1914) Über die Stegocephalen aus der Trias Spitzbergens, Bulletin of the Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala 13, 1-34
Watson D. M. S. (1919) The structure, evolution and origin of the Amphibia.—The "orders" Rachitomi and Stereospondyli, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 209, 1-73
Säve-Söderbergh G. (1935) On the dermal bones of the head in labyrinthodont stegocephalians and primitive Reptilia, with special reference to Eotriassic stegocephalians from East Greenland, Meddelelser om Grønland 98 3, 1-211
Warren A., Black T. (1985) A new rhytidosteid (Amphibia, Labyrinthodontia) from the Early Triassic Arcadia Formation of Queensland, Australia, and the relationships of Triassic temnospondyls, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5, 303-327
Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698
Schoch R., Milner A. R. (2000) Stereospondyli, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie - Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 3B, 1-203
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
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