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Macrocnemus bassanii

Reptilia - Tanystropheidae

Taxonomy
Macrochemus bassanii was named by Nopcsa (1930). Its type specimen is MSNM specimen Besano I (destroyed during WWII?), a partial skeleton (skull, complete vertebral column, humerus, tibia and fibula), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Besano (Scisti bituminosi), which is in an Anisian/Ladinian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal dolomite/shale in the Besano Formation of Italy. It is the type species of Macrocnemus.

It was recombined as Macrocnemus bassanii by Kuhn (1971), Chatterjee (1980), Chatterjee (1986) and Ezcurra (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1930Macrochemus bassanii Nopcsa p. 252
1971Macrocnemus bassanii Kuhn p. 12
1980Macrocnemus bassanii Chatterjee p. 197
1986Macrocnemus bassanii Chatterjee p. 310
2016Macrocnemus bassanii Ezcurra

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
familyTanystropheidaeGervais 1859
genusMacrocnemus()
speciesbassanii()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Macrocnemus bassanii Nopcsa 1930
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Anisian to the top of the Ladinian or 247.20000 to 237.00000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Anisian247.2 - 242.0Switzerland (Ticino) Macrocnemus bassanii (86828)
Anisian - Ladinian247.2 - 237.0Italy (Piedmont) Macrocnemus bassanii (type locality: 86708)
Anisian - Ladinian247.2 - 237.0Switzerland (Kanton Tessin) Macrocnemus bassanii (86837)
Illyrian - Fassanian247.2 - 235.0Switzerland Macrocnemus bassanii (122057)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Switzerland (Ticino) Macrocnemus bassanii (86841)