Umzantsia (original) (raw)
Umzantsia amazana è un tetrapode estinto, di incerta collocazione sistematica. Visse nel Devoniano superiore (Famenniano, circa 360 milioni di anni fa) e i suoi resti fossili sono stati ritrovati in Sudafrica.
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| dbo:abstract | Umzantsia is an extinct genus of limbed stegocephalians ('tetrapods', in the broad sense) from the Devonian of South Africa. It contains a single species, Umzantsia amazana. The genus is based on ~360 million year old skull and shoulder bones from the Waterloo Farm lagerstätte, a locality on the south-eastern coast of South Africa. In the Devonian, this area of Gondwana was located within the Antarctic Circle. Together with the find of Tutusius umlambo from the same locality, this provides the first evidence that Devonian limbed vertebrates were not restricted to the tropics as was formerly believed, and suggests that they may have been global in distribution. Waterloo Farm fossils have been metamorphosed and intensely flattened, with the bone tissue replaced by secondary metamorphic mica that is partially altered to kaolinite and chlorite during uplift. They also provide the first evidence of Devonian limbed vertebrates from the continent of Africa, and only the second and third such taxa from Gondwana. (en) Umzantsia amazana è un tetrapode estinto, di incerta collocazione sistematica. Visse nel Devoniano superiore (Famenniano, circa 360 milioni di anni fa) e i suoi resti fossili sono stati ritrovati in Sudafrica. (it) Umzantsia amazana — викопний вид базальних чотириногих хордових, що існував у кінці девонського періоду. (uk) |
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| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink | dbr:Devonian dbr:Antarctic_Circle dbr:Waterloo_Farm_lagerstätte dbr:Gondwana dbr:Stegocephalia dbr:Cleithrum dbc:Prehistoric_tetrapods dbr:Tiktaalik dbr:Tutusius dbr:Parmastega dbr:Tetrapod dbr:South_Africa dbr:Scapulocoracoid dbr:IsiXhosa dbr:Tropics dbr:Late_Devonian |
| dbp:authority | Gess & Alberg, 2018 (en) |
| dbp:fossilRange | Late Devonian, (en) |
| dbp:imageCaption | Reconstructed outline (en) |
| dbp:taxon | Umzantsia (en) |
| dbp:typeSpecies | Umzantsia amazana (en) |
| dbp:typeSpeciesAuthority | Gess & Ahlberg, 2018 (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | Umzantsia amazana è un tetrapode estinto, di incerta collocazione sistematica. Visse nel Devoniano superiore (Famenniano, circa 360 milioni di anni fa) e i suoi resti fossili sono stati ritrovati in Sudafrica. (it) Umzantsia amazana — викопний вид базальних чотириногих хордових, що існував у кінці девонського періоду. (uk) Umzantsia is an extinct genus of limbed stegocephalians ('tetrapods', in the broad sense) from the Devonian of South Africa. It contains a single species, Umzantsia amazana. The genus is based on ~360 million year old skull and shoulder bones from the Waterloo Farm lagerstätte, a locality on the south-eastern coast of South Africa. In the Devonian, this area of Gondwana was located within the Antarctic Circle. Together with the find of Tutusius umlambo from the same locality, this provides the first evidence that Devonian limbed vertebrates were not restricted to the tropics as was formerly believed, and suggests that they may have been global in distribution. Waterloo Farm fossils have been metamorphosed and intensely flattened, with the bone tissue replaced by secondary metamorphic mica (en) |
| rdfs:label | Umzantsia amazana (it) Umzantsia (en) Umzantsia amazana (uk) |
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