Bruehnopteron murphyi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Eotetrapodiformes
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

Familia: †Tristichopteridae
Genus: †Bruehnopteron
Species: Bruehnopteron murphyi

Name

Bruehnopteron murphyi Schultze & Reed, 2012: 426

Holotype: KUVP 94040, left lateral side of the head, postparietal shield and cleithra. Figures 2(A),(B), 3 and 9(A),(B); Schultze (2010: Fig. 6).

Type locality: Southwest flank of Red Hill at the northern end of the Northern Simpson Park Range, northwest of Eureka, Nevada (NW ¼, NE ¼, section 17, T.25N, R.50E on the Horse Creek Valley 15-minute Quadrangle in Eureka County, Nevada; or 40803’34” N and 116802’07” W); lower K. disparalis Zone, uppermost Givetian, Middle Devonian.

Mentions

• Rhipidistian: Murphy et al., 1976 p. 468
• Eusthenopteron cf. foordi: Gregory et al., 1977 p. 116
• Eusthenopteron: Schultze and Cloutier, 1996 p. 360, 368
• Eusthenopteron cf. foordi: Cloutier et al., 1996 p. 209, 211
• Eusthenopteron foordi: Elliott et al., 2000 p. 291
• Eusthenopteron: Elliott et al., 2000 p. 294: Fig. 1
• Eusthenopteron sp. cf. E. foordi: Elliott et al., 2000 p. 302
• tristichopterid rhipidistian n. gen, n. sp.: Schultze, 2010 p. 7: Fig. 6
• tristichopterid: Swartz, 2010 p. 173A

References

• Hans-Peter Schultze & John W. Reed. 2012: A tristichopterid sarcopterygian fish from the upper Middle Devonian of Nevada. Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology, 24(4): 425–440. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2012.673599 PDF.