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Colognathus

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)69037https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=69037
Rankgenus (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Cotylosauria : Colognathus
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
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
genusColognathusCase 1933
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Colognathusgenusbelongs to Procolophonoideastated with evidenceMurry, 1986
Colognathusgenusbelongs to ProcolophonidaeimpliedIrmis, 2005
Colognathusgenusbelongs to Amniotastated with evidenceSues and Schoch, 2013
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)2
First Recorded Appearance242 - 235 Ma
Triassic
Last Recorded Appearance228 - 201 Ma
Mesozoic
Environmentterrestrial (based on Amniota)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)E. C. Case. 1933. Colognathus proposed for Xenognathus, preoccupied. Journal of the Washington Academy of Science 23:65

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Colognathus obscurus
species
listed (PBDB)8237 Ma
Middle Triassic
228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1928Xenognathus Case p. 6
1933Colognathus Case
1986Colognathus Murry
2005Colognathus Irmis p. 69
2013Colognathus Sues and Schoch

References

Case E. C. (1933) Colognathus proposed for Xenognathus, preoccupied, Journal of the Washington Academy of Science 23, 65
Case E. C. (1928) Indications of a cotylosaur and of a new form of fish from the Triassic Beds of Texas, with remarks on the Shinarump conglomerate, Contributions of the Museum of Paleontology of the University of Michigan 3, 1-14
Murry P. A. (1986) Vertebrate paleontology of the Dockum Group, western Texas and eastern New Mexico, The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Change Across the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 109-137
Irmis R. B. (2005) The vertebrate fauna of the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation in northern Arizona, In S. J. Nesbitt, W. G. Parker, & R. B. Irmis (eds.), Guidebook to the Triassic Formations of the Colorado Plateau in Northern Arizona: Geology, Paleontology, and History. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 9, 63-88
Sues H.-D., Schoch R. R. (2013) First record of Colognathus (?Amniota) from the Middle Triassic of Europe, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 4, 998-1002
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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