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Platypterna digitigrada

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Platypterna digitigrada was named by Hitchcock (1858). It is considered to be a form taxon. It is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Roswell Field's Orchard, Gill, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone/shale in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1858Platypterna digitigrada Hitchcock p. 86
1871Platypterna digitigrada Hitchcock p. xxi
1889Platypterna digitigrada Hitchcock p. 118
1894Platypterna digitigrada Lyman p. 206
1898Platypterna digitigrada Hitchcock p. 401
1902Platypterna digitigrada Hay p. 549
1904Platypterna digitigrada Lull pp. 516-517
1917Platypterna digitigrada Lull p. 120
1930Platypterna digitigrada Hay p. 18
1971Platypterna digitigrada Haubold p. 82

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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()
—Saurischia()
genusPlatypterna
speciesdigitigrada

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.

†Platypterna digitigrada Hitchcock 1858
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Hettangian or 201.40000 to 199.50000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hettangian201.4 - 199.5USA (Massachusetts) Platypterna digitigrada (52986)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.4 - 192.9USA (Massachusetts) Platypterna digitigrada (type locality: 52987 52996)