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Agialopous wyomingensis

Reptilia - Grallatoridae

Taxonomy
Agialopous wyomingensis was named by Branson and Mehl (1932). Its type specimen is UM 540 VP, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Sage Creek tracksite (Popo Agie), which is in a Norian/Rhaetian terrestrial sandstone in the Bell Springs Formation of Wyoming. It is the type species of Agialopous.

It was synonymized subjectively with Grallator cursorius by Hunt and Lucas (2007), Klein and Lucas (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1932Agialopous wyomingensis Branson and Mehl
1958Agialopous wyomingensis Kuhn p. 24
1963Agialopous wyomingensis Kuhn p. 89
1969Agialopous wyomingensis Haubold p. 98 fig. 7
1971Agialopous wyomingensis Haubold p. 65
1995Agialopous wyomingensis Lockley and Hunt p. 94
2004Agialopous wyomingensis Kvale et al. pp. 3-4

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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()
familyGrallatoridae
genusAgialopous
specieswyomingensis

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.

†Agialopous wyomingensis Branson and Mehl 1932
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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: base of the Norian to the top of the Rhaetian or 227.30000 to 201.40000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Norian - Rhaetian227.3 - 201.4USA (Wyoming) Agialopous wyomingensis (type locality: 46555)