Whatcheeria
Extinct genus of tetrapods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Whatcheeria is an extinct genus of early tetrapod from the Mississippian (Early Carboniferous) of Iowa. Fossils have been found in 340 million year old fissure fill deposits in the town of Delta. The type species, Whatcheeria deltae was named in 1995. It is classified within the family Whatcheeriidae, along with the closely related Pederpes and possibly Ossinodus.[1][2][3]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Clade: | Tetrapodomorpha |
Clade: | Elpistostegalia |
Clade: | Stegocephali |
Family: | †Whatcheeriidae |
Genus: | †Whatcheeria Lombard and Bolt, 1995 |
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Whatcheeria is named after What Cheer, Iowa, the hometown of Pat McAdams, the geologist who discovered the first skeletons of the animal. The species is named after Delta, Iowa, the location where the fossils were uncovered.[1]