Allocaudata Fox and Naylor, 1982

Sweetman, Steven C. & Gardner, James D., 2013, A new albanerpetontid amphibian from the Barremian (Early Cretaceous) Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, southern England, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58 (2), pp. 295-324 : 298-299

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.4202/app.2011.0109

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Allocaudata Fox and Naylor, 1982
status

 

Order Allocaudata Fox and Naylor, 1982 Family Albanerpetontidae Fox and Naylor, 1982 Genus Wesserpeton nov.

Etymology: From Wessex, an ancient British kingdom which incorporated the Isle of Wight; and the Greek erpeton, meaning creeping animal, also used in the construction of the name of the type genus Albanerpeton Fox and Naylor, 1982 .

Type and only species: Wesserpeton evansae ; see below.

Diagnosis.—As for species.

Stratigraphic and geographic range.—As for the type species; see below.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Allocaudata

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