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Anomoepus

Reptilia - Moyenisauropodidae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1848Anomoepus Hitchcock p. 220
1898Anomoepus Hitchcock p. 401
1904Anomoepus Lull p. 500
1915Anomoepus Lull p. 208
1917Anomoepus Lull p. 117
1924Anomoepus Lull p. 260
1927Anomoepus Hitchcock and Grier p. 187
1953Anomoepus Lull p. 192
1958Anomoepus Kuhn p. 24
1963Anomoepus Kuhn p. 89
1966Shensipus Young p. 70
1969Anomoepus Haubold p. 101
1970Moyenisauropus Ellenberger p. 374
1971Shensipus Haubold p. 73
1971Anomoepus Haubold p. 83
1971Hopiichnus Welles p. 32
1972Moyenisauropus Ellenberger p. 152
1974Moyenisauropus Ellenberger p. 27
1974Shensipus Haubold p. 45
1974Anomoepus Haubold p. 46
1984Anomoepus Olsen and Galton p. 99
1986Anomoepus Olsen p. 21
1987Moyenisauropus Gierlinksi and Potemska
1989Shensipus Zhen et al. p. 192
1991Anomoepus Gierlinski p. 141
1991Moyenisauropus Gierlinski p. 143
1993Anomoepus Thulborn p. 462
1993Moyenisauropus Thulborn p. 462
2001Anomoepus Avanzini et al. p. 132
2003Anomoepus Romero Molina et al. p. 24
2003Moyenisauropus Romero Molina et al. p. 24
2003Shensipus Romero Molina et al. p. 25
2004Anomoepus Niedzwiedzki and Pienkowski p. 337
2005Moyenisauropus Gierlinski and Niedzwiedzki p. 99
2005Moyenisauropus Knoll p. 85
2006Anomoepus Lockley and Gierlinski p. 179
2006Anomoepus Thulborn p. 284
2006Moyenisauropus Thulborn p. 288 fig. 7
2006Anomoepus Weishampel p. 141
2009Anomoepus Gierlinski et al. p. 230
2009Anomoepus Lockley et al. p. 263
2009Moyenisauropus Smith et al. p. 679
2010Anomoepus Li et al. p. 733
2011Anomoepus Niedźwiedzki p. 293
2011Moyenisauropus Niedźwiedzki p. 294
2016Anomoepus Xing et al. p. 518
2017Shensipus Li and Zhang p. 282

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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
Cerapoda
Ornithopoda()
familyMoyenisauropodidae
genusAnomoepus

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.

G. †Anomoepus Hitchcock 1848
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Anomoepus crassus Hitchcock 1889
Anomoepus fringilla Ellenberger 1974
Anomoepus giganteus Hitchcock and Grier 1927
Anomoepus lacertoideus Hitchcock 1858
Anomoepus major Hitchcock 1858
Anomoepus minutus Ellenberger 1974
Anomoepus moabensis Lockley et al. 1992
Anomoepus moghrebensis Biron and Dutuit 1981
Anomoepus palmipes Ellenberger 1970
Anomoepus pienkovskii Gierlinski 1991
Anomoepus ranivorus Ellenberger 1970
Anomoepus scambus Hitchcock 1848
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Invalid names: Anomoepus cuneatus Hitchcock 1889 [synonym], Anomoepus curvatus Hitchcock 1862 [synonym], Anomoepus intermedius Hitchcock 1862 [synonym], Anomoepus isodactylus Hitchcock 1889 [synonym], Anomoepus minimus Hitchcock 1862 [synonym], Anomoepus minor Hitchcock 1858 [synonym], Apatichnus circumagens Hitchcock 1858 [synonym], Eubrontes gracillimus Hitchcock 1844 [synonym], Moyenisauropus dodai Ellenberger 1974 [synonym], Moyenisauropus levicauda Ellenberger 1974 [synonym], Moyenisauropus longicauda Ellenberger 1972 [synonym], Moyenisauropus minor Ellenberger 1970 [synonym], Moyenisauropus natatilis Ellenberger 1974 [synonym], Moyenisauropus natator Ellenberger 1970 [synonym], Moyenisauropus vermivorus Ellenberger 1970 [synonym], Plesiornis quadrupes Hitchcock 1858 [synonym]
Anomoepus shingi Welles 1971
Anomoepus turda Ellenberger 1972
Invalid names: Hopiichnus Welles 1971 [synonym], Moyenisauropus Ellenberger 1970 [synonym], Shensipus Young 1966 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
E. Hitchcock 1848Hind feet plantigrade, three-toed (four-toed?); all the toes pointing forward. Heel long, extending to the tarsal joint. Fore foot quinquefid, digitigrade. All the toes pachydactylous, and making phalangeal impressions.
G. Gierlinski 1991 (Moyenisauropus)Normally bipedal, but sometimes also quadrupedal. Pes functionally tridactyl. Hallux rarely imprinted. Pedal digits massive, short and highly divaricated, Two phalangeal pads are present in the pedal digit III. The pedal digit IV is longest. In the trackway, the pes is directed inward. Metatarsal impression occurs when the trackmaker rests. In the pes imprints, which were left during active locomotion, the angle between digits II and III is always larger than that one between digits III and IV. The pentadactyl manus has short and thick digits. Manual digits are subequal in length.
G. Gierlinski 1991Normally bipedal, but sometimes quadrupedal also. Pes with three functional digits. Hallux rarely imprinted. Pedal digits II, III and IV usually tend to be subequal in length, but sometimes digit IV is clearly the longest one. In the trackway, the pes is directed forward or inward. Metatarsal impression occurs when the trackmaker rests. The manus is tetradactyl or pentadactyl. Manual digits II and III are longest.
L. Xing et al. 2016{After Olsen and Rainforth 2003). Small tracks (pes imprints , 20 cm long) of a facultative biped with wide digit divarication and weak mesaxony. Pes imprints tetradactyl, but functionally tridactyl. Sitting tracks with metatarsal and pentadactyl manus impressions. Metatarsal-phalangeal pad of digit IV almost directly in line with axis of digit III in walking tracks. Pedal digit I (hallux) relatively long and often at least partially impressed, especially in sitting tracks. In the manus, digit III longest with other digits decreasing in length symmetrically away from that digit. Tail trace usually present in sitting tracks. Fully bipedal as well as quadrupedal walking trackways occur.
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 Carnian to the top of the Early/Lower Cretaceous or 237.00000 to 100.50000 Ma

Collections (95 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Carnian237.0 - 228.0Morocco (Marrakech-Safi) A. moghrebensis (34701)
Carnian237.0 - 228.0Italy (Liguria) A. sp. (68780)
Late/Upper Triassic237.0 - 201.4USA (New Jersey) A. intermedius (91694)
Norian228.0 - 208.5USA (Pennsylvania) A. gracillimus (55413) A. sp. (55414)
Norian228.0 - 208.5USA (New Mexico) A. sp. (46560)
Norian - Rhaetian228.0 - 201.3Poland (Malopolskie) Moyenisauropus sp., A. sp. (157240)
Lacian - Alaunian221.5 - 212.0USA (Virginia) A. sp. (68890)
Early/Lower Jurassic201.4 - 174.7China (Shaanxi) A. sp. (126539)
Early/Lower Jurassic201.4 - 174.7China (Nei Mongol) A. intermedius (107973)
Early/Lower Jurassic201.4 - 174.7Australia (Queensland) Ornithopoda indet. (62555)
Hettangian201.3 - 199.3USA (New Jersey) A. scambus (192337) A. scambus, A. crassus (55527) Apatichnus crassus (100136)
Hettangian201.3 - 199.3USA (Connecticut) A. intermedius (46438)
Hettangian201.3 - 199.3USA (Massachusetts) A. sp. (55331) Apatichnus circumagens (53030) Plesiornis quadrupes, A. curvatus, A. gracillimus, A. minimus, A. cuneatus, Apatichnus circumagens, A. minor, Apatichnus holyokensis, Corvipes lacertoideus, A. major (52986)
Hettangian201.3 - 199.3China (Yunnan) A. sp. (182630)
Hettangian201.3 - 199.3USA (Utah) A. sp. (121320)
Early/Lower Hettangian201.3 - 196.5USA (Utah) Megalosauridae indet. (52153)
Early/Lower Hettangian201.3 - 196.5Canada (Nova Scotia) A. sp. (138976 138977 138978)
Early/Lower Hettangian201.3 - 196.5Poland (Swietokrzyskie) A. sp. (83229 84260) Moyenisauropus karaszevskii (194089)
Early/Lower Hettangian - Middle Hettangian201.3 - 196.5Poland (Swietokrzyskie) Moyenisauropus natator (56965)
Late/Upper Hettangian201.3 - 196.5Poland (Swietokrzyskie) Moyenisauropus sp., A. curvatus, A. pienkovskii, Moyenisauropus karaszevskii (28334)
Late/Upper Hettangian201.3 - 196.5Poland (Mazowieckie) Moyenisauropus sp. (56963)
Late/Upper Hettangian201.3 - 196.5Italy (Trentino-Alto Adige) Ornithopoda indet. (68778)
Middle Hettangian201.3 - 196.5Poland (Swietokrzyskie) A. sp. (56999) Moyenisauropus natator (56964)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.3 - 190.8USA (Massachusetts) A. crassus, Corvipes lacertoideus (52985) A. intermedius, Ornithoidichnites gracillimus, A. cuneatus, A. isodactylus (52995) A. intermedius, Plesiornis quadrupes, A. gracillimus, A. minimus, A. cuneatus, A. minor (91669) A. intermedius, Plesiornis quadrupes, A. scambus, A. curvatus, Grallator gracillimus, A. gracillimus, A. minimus, Apatichnus circumagens (52998) A. isodactylus (52993) A. minor, A. major (91578) A. scambus, A. minor, Ornithoidichnites fulicoides (52994) A. scambus, Ornithoidichnites gracillimus, A. minor, Corvipes lacertoideus, Ornithoidichnites fulicoides (52996) A. sp. (53025 140486) A. sp., A. intermedius, A. scambus, A. curvatus, A. gracillimus, A. minimus, Apatichnus circumagens, A. minor, Corvipes lacertoideus, A. major (52987) Apatichnus circumagens (53032) Brontozoum gracillimum (53028)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.3 - 190.8Lesotho (Mohale's Hoek) Moyenisauropus natator, Moyenisauropus vermivorus (149703)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.3 - 190.8USA (Connecticut) A. gracillimus, Corvipes lacertoideus (53023) A. intermedius, A. curvatus, Corvipes lacertoideus (53000) Grallator gracillimus (91574)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.3 - 190.8USA (Utah) A. sp., A. minimus (184682)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.3 - 190.8Lesotho (Quthing) Moyenisauropus levicauda, Moyenisauropus palmipes, Masitisisauropezus minutus, Masitisisauropodiscus fringilla, Masitisisauropodiscus turdus (84072) Moyenisauropus natator (149702) Moyenisauropus natator, Moyenisauropus dodai, Moyenisauropus vermivorus, Moyenisauropus minor, Moyenisauropus longicauda, Moyenisauropus natatilis, Moyenisauropus palmipes (56026) Moyenisauropus vermivorus, Moyenisauropus longicauda (149701)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.3 - 190.8Lesotho (Maseru) A. sp. (230716)
Hettangian - Early/Lower Sinemurian201.3 - 189.6Argentina (Río Negro) A. sp. (197262)
Sinemurian199.3 - 190.8Australia (Queensland) A. sp. (60756)
Sinemurian - Pliensbachian199.3 - 182.7USA (Arizona) Hopiichnus shingi (126606)
Sinemurian - Pliensbachian199.3 - 182.7USA (Utah) A. sp. (223705)
Pliensbachian190.8 - 182.7USA (Utah) A. sp. (193256 193257 193258 193259 193265 193266 225150 229818) Moyenisauropus sp. (193262 193267)
Pliensbachian - Toarcian190.8 - 174.1USA (Utah) A. sp. (201625) Coelurosauria indet. (60602)
Toarcian182.7 - 174.1China (Guizhou) A. sp. (224181)
Toarcian182.7 - 174.1USA (Utah) A. sp. (193260 193264) Moyenisauropus sp. (193261)
Middle Jurassic174.7 - 161.5China (Shaanxi) A. sp. (182636 182637) Shensipus tungchuanensis (52851 224344) Shensipus xiaoliheensis (224345)
Aalenian - Bajocian174.1 - 168.3China (Sichuan) A. sp. (220044)
Bajocian170.3 - 168.3China (Chongqing) A. sp. (60492)
Kimmeridgian157.3 - 152.1USA (Wyoming) A. sp. (36270)
Kimmeridgian157.3 - 152.1Spain (Asturias) A. sp. (219747 219751)
Kimmeridgian157.3 - 152.1USA (Colorado) A. sp. (192777)
Early/Lower Kimmeridgian - Late/Upper Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Portugal (Centro) A. sp. (225903 225905)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian155.7 - 145.0Portugal (Centro) A. sp. (225909) Theropoda indet. (225910)
Tithonian - Berriasian152.1 - 139.8Canada (British Columbia) A. sp. (52587)
Middle Tithonian - Late/Upper Tithonian150.8 - 145.0Portugal (Centro) A. sp. (225899)
Early/Lower Cretaceous145.0 - 100.5China (Sichuan) A. sp. (219998)
Late/Upper Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian105.3 - 93.5USA (Colorado) A. sp. (61430)