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Otozoum moodii

Reptilia - Otozoidae

Taxonomy
Otozoum moodii was named by Hitchcock (1847). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is AC 4/1a (AC old no. 234), a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Moody's Corner, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine mudstone/sandstone in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1847Otozoum moodii Hitchcock p. 55 fig. 1A
1848Otozoum moodii Hitchcock pp. 214-215
1854Otozoum moodii Warren p. 32
1856Otozoum moodii Hitchcock p. 97
1861Otozoum moodii Deane p. 56
1871Otozoum moodii Hitchcock p. xxi
1879Brontozoum moodii Miller p. 151
1882Otozoum modii Quenstedt p. 131
1889Otozoum moodii Hitchcock p. 127
1894Otozoum moodii Lyman p. 205
1895Otozoum moodii Lyman figs. Pl. 607
1898Otozoum moodii Hitchcock p. 402
1902Otozoum moodii Hay p. 547
1904Otozoum moodii Lull pp. 513-514
1915Otozoum moodii Lull p. 223 fig. 74
1917Otozoum moodii Lull p. 119
1924Otozoum moodii Lull p. 268
1927Otozoum moodii Hitchcock and Grier p. 191
1930Otozoum moodii Hay p. 17
1953Otozoum moodii Lull p. 189
1959Otozoum moodii Schmidt p. 106
1963Otozoum moodii Kuhn p. 85
1969Otozoum moodii Haubold p. 102 fig. 9
1970Otozoum moodii Sarjeant p. 270
1971Otozoum moodii Haubold p. 85
1974Otozoum moodii Haubold p. 124
1990Otozoum moodii Thulborn p. 193
2000Otozoum moodii Gand et al. p. 606
2000Otozoum moodii Rainforth p. 67
2003Otozoum moodii Rainforth p. 809 fig. 3
2005Otozoum moodii Irmis p. 64
2006Otozoum moodii Hunt and Lucas p. 165
2006Otozoum moodii Lockley et al. p. 205
2006Otozoum moodii Thulborn p. 291 fig. 8
2006Otozoum moodyi Weems p. 372

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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
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Eusaurischia
—Sauropodomorpha(Huene 1932)
—Bagualosauria
—Plateosauria()
—Anchisauria
—Prosauropoda()
familyOtozoidae
genusOtozoum
speciesmoodii

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.

†Otozoum moodii Hitchcock 1847
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialinfrao
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellinginfrao
Diet: herbivoreinfrao
Created: 2005-09-15 11:05:47
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:40:20
Source: infrao = infraorder, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Norman and Weishampel 1991, Carroll 1988

Age range: Early/Lower Hettangian or 201.40000 to 199.50000 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Hettangian201.4 - 199.5Canada (Nova Scotia) Otozoum sp. (138976 138977)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.4 - 192.9USA (Connecticut) Otozoum moodii (91574)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.4 - 192.9USA (Massachusetts) Otozoum moodii (type locality: 52994 52995 52998)
Early/Lower Jurassic201.4 - 174.7Namibia (Otjozondupa) Otozoum moodii (214425)