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Anticheiropus pilulatus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Anticheiropus pilulatus was named by Hitchcock (1865). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is AC 10/4-5, 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.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Anticheiropus pilulatus Hitchcock pp. 10-11 figs. Pl. 9:3
1871Anticheiropus pilulatus Hitchcock p. xxi
1889Anticheiropus pilulatus Hitchcock p. 118
1898Anticheiropus pilulatus Hitchcock p. 401
1902Anticheiropus pilulatus Hay p. 539
1904Anticheiropus pilulatus Lull pp. 540-541
1927Anticheiropus pilulatus Hitchcock and Grier p. 192
1930Anticheiropus pilulatus Hay p. 5
1971Anticheiropus pilulatus 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
speciespilulatus

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 pilulatus 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: base of the Hettangian to the top of the Sinemurian or 201.30000 to 190.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


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