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Anomoepus moabensis

Reptilia - Moyenisauropodidae

Taxonomy
Trisauropodiscus moabensis was named by Lockley et al. (1992). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is CU-MWC 181.3, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Potash Road Dinosaur tracksite, which is in a Pliensbachian/Toarcian terrestrial sandstone in the Navajo Sandstone Formation of Utah.

It was recombined as Anomoepus moabensis by Lockley and Gierlinski (2006).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1992Trisauropodiscus moabensis Lockley et al. pp. 125-126 figs. 8h, 13, 14
1995Trisauropodiscus moabensis Lockley and Hunt p. 131
2006Trisauropodiscus moabensis Hunt and Lucas p. 165
2006Anomoepus moabensis Lockley and Gierlinski p. 181

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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
subclassEureptilia()
RankNameAuthor
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Ornithischia()
—Genasauria
—Cerapoda
—Ornithopoda()
familyMoyenisauropodidae
genusAnomoepus
speciesmoabensis()

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.

†Anomoepus moabensis Lockley et al. 1992
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
M. G. Lockley and G. D. Gierlinski 2006An ichnospecies distinguished by a very wide digit divarication between digit II and IV, up to 120°.
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: herbivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:40:05
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:40:05
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Pliensbachian to the top of the Toarcian or 190.80000 to 174.10000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Pliensbachian - Toarcian190.8 - 174.1USA (Utah) Coelurosauria indet. (type locality: 60602)