Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Allocaudata 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Amphibia
Subclassis: Lissamphibia
Ordo: †Allocaudata

Familia: †Albanerpetontidae
Genus: †Wesserpeton
Species: W. evansae

Name

Wesserpeton Sweetman & Gardner, (in press, 2012)

Type species: Wesserpeton evansae Sweetman & Gardner, (in press, 2012)
Etymology: Wess, from Wessex, an ancient British kingdom which incorporated the Isle of Wight + erpeton, from the Greek ἑρπετόν (herpeton), meaning creeping animal and used in the construction of the name of the type genus Albanerpeton Fox and Naylor, 1982.

References

  • Steven C. Sweetman & James D. Gardner (in press, 2012): A new albanerpetontid amphibian from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, southern England. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica in press. DOI: 10.4202/app.2011.0109.
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