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Tarsodactylus caudatus

Reptilia - Batrachopodidae

Taxonomy
Tarsodactylus caudatus was named by Hitchcock (1858). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is AC 42/5, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Lily Pond Quarry, Gill, which is in a Hettangian fluvial-lacustrine siltstone/sandstone in the Turners Falls Formation of Massachusetts.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1858Tarsodactylus caudatus Hitchcock p. 99
1861Tarsodactylus caudatus Deane p. 55
1871Tarsodactylus caudatus Hitchcock p. xxi
1889Tarsodactylus caudatus Hitchcock p. 118
1894Tarsodactylus caudatus Lyman p. 206
1895Tarsodactylus caudatus Lyman figs. Pl. 610
1898Tarsodactylus caudatus Hitchcock p. 401
1902Tarsodactylus caudatus Hay p. 552
1904Tarsodactylus caudatus Lull p. 527
1917Tarsodactylus caudatus Lull p. 122
1930Tarsodactylus caudatus Hay p. 21
1954Tarsodactylus caudatus Baird p. 182
1971Tarsodactylus caudatus Haubold p. 63
1974Tarsodactylus caudatus Haubold p. 131

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
—SuchiaKrebs 1974
—Aetosauria(Lydekker 1889)
familyBatrachopodidae
genusTarsodactylus
speciescaudatus

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.

†Tarsodactylus caudatus Hitchcock 1858
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: herbivoresubo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:38:33
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:38:33
Source: subo = suborder, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Benton 1983, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Hettangian or 201.30000 to 199.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hettangian201.3 - 199.3USA (Massachusetts) Tarsodactylus caudatus (type locality: 52986)