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Actinodontidae ✝

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)66914https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=66914
Rankfamily (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Actinodontidae
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
-ArchegosauriformesSchoch and Milner 2000
familyActinodontidaeLydekker 1885
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Actinodontidaefamilybelongs to Rachitomistated with evidenceWatson, 1919
Actinodontidaefamilybelongs to Eryopoideastated without evidenceMillner, 1978
Actinodontidaefamilybelongs to Archegosauriformesstated with evidenceSchoch and Milner, 2000
Actinodontidaefamilybelongs to Archegosauroideastated with evidenceYates and Warren, 2000
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)6
First Recorded Appearance290 - 279 Ma
Permian
Last Recorded Appearance280 - 273 Ma
Permian
Environmentbrackish,freshwater,terrestrial (based on Tetrapoda)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Temnospondyli)
Dietcarnivore (based on Temnospondyli)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)J. Boy. 1990. Über einige Vertreter der Eryopoidea (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) aus dem europäischen Rotliegend (?höchstes Karbon - Perm), 3. Onchiodon; (On some representatives of the Eryopoidea (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the European Rotliegend (?Uppermost Carboniferous - Permian), 3. Onchiodon). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 64(3/4):287-312

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Chelydosaurus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
2290 Ma
Permian
290 Ma
Permian
Syndyodosuchus
genus
listed (PBDB)1280 Ma
Permian
280 Ma
Permian

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1885Actinodontidae Lydekker
1919Actinodontidae Watson p. 64
1946Actinodontidae Kuhn p. 52
1978Actinodontidae Millner p. 665
2000Actinodontidae Schoch and Milner p. 53
2000Actinodontidae Yates and Warren pp. 84, 93 fig. 1

References

Boy J. (1990) Über einige Vertreter der Eryopoidea (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) aus dem europäischen Rotliegend (?höchstes Karbon - Perm), 3. Onchiodon; (On some representatives of the Eryopoidea (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the European Rotliegend (?Uppermost Carboniferous - Permian), 3. Onchiodon), Paläontologische Zeitschrift 64 3/4, 287-312
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
Kuhn O. (1946) Das System der fossilen und rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien [The system of fossil and recent amphibians and reptiles], Bericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bamberg 29, 49-67
Schoch R., Milner A. R. (2000) Stereospondyli, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie - Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 3B, 1-203
Yates A. M., Warren A. (2000) The phylogeny of the ‘higher’ temnospondyls (Vertebrata: Choanata) and its implications for the monophyly and origins of the Stereospondyli, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 128 1, 77-121
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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