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Coelurosaurichnus palyssi

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Coelurosaurichnus palissyi was named by Gand (1976). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is Repas, Rg1-Rg2, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is La Pissoire Quarries, EF3 tracksite, which is in an Anisian/Ladinian floodplain claystone/sandstone in the Grès d'Antully Formation of France.

It was synonymized subjectively with Coelurosaurichnus perriauxi by Gand and Demathieu (2005); it was misspelled as Coelurosaurichnus palissyi by Thulborn (2006), Gand et al. (2007), Foster et al. (2025).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1976Coelurosaurichnus palissyi Gand
1977Coelurosaurichnus palissyi Gand p. 15
2000Coelurosaurichnus palyssii Gand et al. p. 616
2006Coelurosaurichnus palissyi Thulborn p. 284
2007Coelurosaurichnus palyssii Gand et al. p. 15
2025Coelurosaurichnus palissyi Foster et al. p. 311

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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()
genusCoelurosaurichnusHuene 1941
speciespalyssi()

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.

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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: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Anisian to the top of the Ladinian or 246.70000 to 237.00000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Anisian - Ladinian246.7 - 237.0France (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) Coelurosaurichnus palissyi (31312 68222 type locality: 68223)