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Argoides minimus
Taxonomy
Ornithichnites minimus was named by Hitchcock (1836). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is AC 25/1, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Lily Pond Quarry, Gill, which is in a Hettangian fluvial-lacustrine siltstone/sandstone in the Turners Falls Formation of Massachusetts.
It was recombined as Ornithoidichnites minimus by Hitchcock (1837); it was recombined as Argozoum minimum by Hitchcock (1848), Miller (1879) and Quenstedt (1882); it was recombined as Plesiornis minimus by Hay (1902); it was synonymized subjectively with Argoides isodactyletus by Lull (1904); it was recombined as Argoides minimus by Hitchcock (1845), Adams (1846), Lull (1917), Hitchcock and Grier (1927), Hay (1930), Kuhn (1963) and Haubold (1971).
It was recombined as Ornithoidichnites minimus by Hitchcock (1837); it was recombined as Argozoum minimum by Hitchcock (1848), Miller (1879) and Quenstedt (1882); it was recombined as Plesiornis minimus by Hay (1902); it was synonymized subjectively with Argoides isodactyletus by Lull (1904); it was recombined as Argoides minimus by Hitchcock (1845), Adams (1846), Lull (1917), Hitchcock and Grier (1927), Hay (1930), Kuhn (1963) and Haubold (1971).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1836 | Ornithichnites minimus Buckland p. 41 |
1836 | Ornithichnites minimus Hitchcock p. 325 fig. 9 |
1837 | Ornithichnites minimus Hitchcock p. 175 |
1837 | Ornithoidichnites minimus Hitchcock p. 175 |
1841 | Ornithoidichnites isodactylus Hitchcock p. 496 |
1845 | Argoides isodactyletus Hitchcock |
1845 | Argoides minimus Hitchcock p. 24 |
1846 | Argoides minimus Adams p. 215 |
1848 | Argozoum minimum Hitchcock p. 187 |
1848 | Argozoum paridigitatum Hitchcock p. 187 |
1854 | Argozoum paridigitatum Warren p. 29 |
1858 | Plesiornis aequalipes Hitchcock p. 104 |
1871 | Argozoum paridigitatum Hitchcock p. xxi |
1871 | Plesiornis aequalipes Hitchcock p. xxi |
1879 | Argozoum minimum Miller p. 147 |
1882 | Argozoum minimum Quenstedt p. 131 |
1889 | Argozoum paridigitatum Hitchcock p. 118 |
1889 | Plesiornis aequalipes Hitchcock p. 118 |
1894 | Argozoum paridigitatum Lyman p. 206 |
1898 | Argozoum paridigitatum Hitchcock p. 401 |
1902 | Argoides isodactylatus Hay p. 540 |
1902 | Plesiornis minimus Hay p. 550 |
1904 | Argoides isodactyletus Lull p. 518 |
1917 | Argoides minimus Lull p. 120 |
1927 | Argoides minimus Hitchcock and Grier p. 196 |
1930 | Argoides isodactyletus Hay p. 6 |
1930 | Argoides minimus Hay p. 6 |
1963 | Plesiornis aequalipes Kuhn p. 82 |
1963 | Argoides minimus Kuhn p. 96 |
1971 | Argoides minimus Haubold p. 81 |
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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.
†Argoides minimus Hitchcock 1836
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Invalid names: Argoides isodactyletus Hitchcock 1841 [synonym], Argozoum paridigitatum Hitchcock 1848 [synonym], Plesiornis aequalipes Hitchcock 1858 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 |
Age range: Hettangian or 201.30000 to 199.30000 Ma
Collections (7 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Hettangian | USA (Massachusetts) | Ornithichnites minimus, Argozoum paridigitatum (type locality: 52986) | |
Hettangian - Sinemurian | USA (Connecticut) | Plesiornis aequalipes, Argozoum paridigitatum (53023) Plesiornis aequalipes, Ornithoidichnites minimus (53000) | |
Hettangian - Sinemurian | USA (Massachusetts) | Argozoum paridigitatum (52987 52993 52996) Ornithichnites minimus, Argozoum paridigitatum (52985) |