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Anticheiropus hamatus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Anticheiropus hamatus was named by Hitchcock (1865). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is AC 51/17, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Dexter Marsh's Quarry, Montague, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts. It is the type species of Anticheiropus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Anticheiropus hamatus Hitchcock p. 10 figs. Pl. 9:1-2
1871Anticheiropus hamatus Hitchcock p. xxi
1889Anticheiropus hamatus Hitchcock p. 118
1894Anticheiropus hamatus Lyman p. 205
1898Anticheiropus hamatus Hitchcock p. 401
1902Anticheiropus hamatus Hay p. 539
1904Anticheiropus hamatus Lull p. 541
1927Anticheiropus hamatus Hitchcock and Grier p. 186
1930Anticheiropus hamatus Hay p. 5
1971Anticheiropus hamatus Haubold p. 81

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
RankNameAuthor
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
genusAnticheiropus
specieshamatus

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.

†Anticheiropus hamatus Hitchcock 1865
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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: Hettangian or 201.30000 to 199.30000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hettangian201.3 - 199.3USA (Massachusetts) Anticheiropus hamatus (52986)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.3 - 190.8USA (Massachusetts) Anticheiropus hamatus (type locality: 52993)