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Stegopodus czerkasi

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Stegopodus czerkasi was named by Lockley and Hunt (1998). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is CU-MWC 195.1, a footprint (cast of right manus track), and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is tracksite, 5 km northeast of Moab airport, which is in an Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian terrestrial sandstone in the Morrison Formation of Utah.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1998Stegopodus czerkasi Lockley and Hunt p. 334 fig. 1–2
2006Stegopodus czerkasi Foster and Lockley p. 208
2012Stegopodus czerkasi Pascual et al. p. 304
2013Stegopodus czerkasi Xing et al. p. 62
2016Stegopodus czerkasi Salisbury et al. p. 97
2017Stegopodus czerkasi Xing et al. p. 11
2021Stegopodus czerkasi Xing et al. p. 74

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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
classReptilia
RankNameAuthor
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Ornithischia()
—Genasauria
—Thyreophora()
—Stegosauria()
genusStegopodus
speciesczerkasi

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.

†Stegopodus czerkasi Lockley and Hunt 1998
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
M. G. Lockley and A. P. Hunt 1998As for ichnogenus.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: gregariouso
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: herbivoreo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2004-12-14 12:50:52
Modified: 2004-12-14 14:50:52
Source: o = order
Reference: Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Oxfordian to the top of the Kimmeridgian or 161.20000 to 152.10000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian161.2 - 152.1USA (Utah) Stegosauria indet. (type locality: 156127)