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Diploradus
Description | Diploradus is an extinct genus of four-limbed stem-tetrapod from the Mississippian (mid-Tournaisian) of Scotland. It contains a single species, Diploradus austiumensis, based on an incomplete skull and jaw fragments from the Ballagan Formation at Burnmouth. The most complete part of the specimen, the lower jaw, was about 3.0 cm (1.2 in.) in length and possessed several rows of small, numerous teeth. It likely represents a juvenile animal. Diploradus was described in a 2016 study which was devised to fill in the tetrapod and stem-tetrapod faunas of Romer's gap, an interval of the early Carboniferous with few vertebrate fossils. It was one of five new genera named in this study, along with Aytonerpeton, Koilops, Ossirarus, and Perittodus. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploradus, 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 : Diploradus | |||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
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Scientific Name | Diploradus Clack et al., 2016 | |||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploradus |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Diploradus austiumensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
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!