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Kraterokheirodon
Description | Kraterokheirodon ("cupped hand tooth") is an extinct genus of enigmatic tetrapod from the Late Triassic Chinle Formation of Arizona. The type and only species is K. colberti. Although it is known only from two large teeth, their shape is so unlike those of any other animal that Kraterokheirodon cannot definitively be classified under any known group of tetrapods. Its discovery also indicates that our understanding of Late Triassic tetrapod diversity is still incomplete, with Kraterokheirodon representing an otherwise unknown lineage of large tetrapod in western North America. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraterokheirodon, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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Source Data |
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Rank | genus | |||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Kraterokheirodon | |||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
Classification (GBIF) |
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Scientific Name | Kraterokheirodon Irmis & Parker, 2005 | |||||||
Name Published In | Article title: Unusual tetrapod teeth from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation, Arizona, USA. | |||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraterokheirodon |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Kraterokheirodon colberti species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
References
inferred from original work (title) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
refer original publication - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
web search (AJR) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
www.organismnames.com (Jul 2012) / web search - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Article title: Unusual tetrapod teeth from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation, Arizona, USA. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
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!