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Trihamus elegans

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Trihamus elegans was named by Hitchcock (1862). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is AC 47/30, 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 Trihamus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1862Trihamus elegans Hitchcock
1865Trihamus elegans Hitchcock p. 9 figs. Pl. 2:3
1871Trihamus elegans Hitchcock p. xxi
1889Trihamus elegans Hitchcock p. 126
1894Trihamus elegans Lyman p. 205
1898Trihamus elegans Hitchcock p. 401
1902Trihamus elegans Hay p. 553
1904Trihamus elegans Lull p. 542
1930Trihamus elegans Hay p. 22
1971Trihamus elegans 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()
genusTrihamus
specieselegans

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.

†Trihamus elegans Hitchcock 1862
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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) Trihamus elegans (52986)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.4 - 192.9USA (Connecticut) Trihamus elegans (53000)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.4 - 192.9USA (Massachusetts) Trihamus elegans (type locality: 52996)