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Selenichnus breviusculus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Selenichnus breviusculus was named by Hitchcock (1858). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is AC 44/10, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Ferry above Turners Falls, tracksite, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1858Selenichnus breviusculus Hitchcock p. 134 figs. Pls. 23, 60
1861Selenichnus breviusculus Deane p. 48
1871Selenichnus breviusculus Hitchcock p. xxi
1889Selenichnus breviusculus Hitchcock p. 119
1894Selenichnus breviusculus Lyman p. 206
1895Selenichnus breviusculus Lyman figs. Pl. 609
1898Selenichnus breviusculus Hitchcock p. 402
1902Selenichnus breviusculus Hay p. 551
1904Selenichnus breviusculus Lull p. 499
1915Selenichnus breviusculus Lull p. 207 fig. 60
1917Selenichnus breviusculus Lull p. 117
1930Selenichnus breviusculus Hay p. 20
1953Selenichnus breviusculus Lull p. 161
1963Selenichnus breviusculus Kuhn p. 82
1971Selenichnus breviusculus Haubold p. 73

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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()
—Theropoda()
genusSelenichnus
speciesbreviusculusHitchcock 1858

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.

†Selenichnus breviusculus Hitchcock 1858
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
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: solitaryo
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: carnivoreo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2004-12-14 12:50:08
Modified: 2004-12-14 14:50:08
Source: o = order
Reference: Marsh 1875

Age range: Hettangian or 201.30000 to 199.30000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hettangian201.3 - 199.3USA (Massachusetts) Selenichnus breviusculus (52986)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.3 - 190.8USA (Massachusetts) Selenichnus breviusculus (type locality: 52998)