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Cunichnoides marsupialoideus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Cunichnoides marsupialoideus was named by Hitchcock (1858). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is AC 29/2, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is below Turners Falls, tracksite, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone/shale in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts. It is the type species of Cunichnoides.

It was corrected as Cunichnoides marsupialoides by Hay (1930).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1858Cunichnoides marsupialoideus Hitchcock p. 55
1889Cunichnoides marsupialoideus Hitchcock p. 118
1894Cunichnoides marsupialoideus Lyman p. 205
1898Cunichnoides marsupialoideus Hitchcock p. 401
1902Cunichnoides marsupialoides Hay p. 543
1904Cunichnoides marsupialoideus Lull p. 540
1930Cunichnoides marsupialoides Hay p. 10
1971Cunichnoides marsupialoideus Haubold p. 100

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
genusCunichnoides
speciesmarsupialoideus

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.

†Cunichnoides marsupialoideus Hitchcock 1858
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Hettangian to the top of the Sinemurian or 201.30000 to 190.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.3 - 190.8USA (Massachusetts) Cunichnoides marsupialoideus (type locality: 52996)