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Isochirotherium coureli

Reptilia - Chirotheriidae

Taxonomy
Chirotherium coureli was named by Demathieu (1970). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is 21.1 FY, GGPD coll., a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Chasselay tracksite, level Y (BQ), which is in an Anisian/Ladinian terrestrial horizon in the Grès Inférieurs du Lyonnais Formation of France.

It was misspelled as Isochirotherium conreli by Haubold (1974); it was recombined as Isochirotherium coureli by Haubold (1971), Demathieu and Haubold (1972), Courel and Demathieu (1976), Demathieu (1985), Courel and Demathieu (1995), Demathieu and Demathieu (2004), Gand et al. (2007), Klein et al. (2011), Gand et al. (2012) and Klein and Lucas (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1968Chirotherium coureli Courel et al. p. 276
1970Chirotherium coureli Demathieu p. 144
1970Chirotherium coureli Ellenberger et al. p. 157
1971Isochirotherium coureli Haubold p. 55
1972Isochirotherium coureli Demathieu and Haubold p. 805
1974Isochirotherium conreli Haubold p. 117
1976Isochirotherium coureli Courel and Demathieu p. 202
1985Isochirotherium coureli Demathieu p. 59
1995Isochirotherium coureli Courel and Demathieu p. 87
2004Isochirotherium coureli Demathieu and Demathieu p. 84
2007Isochirotherium coureli Gand et al. p. 12
2011Isochirotherium coureli Klein et al. p. 221
2012Isochirotherium coureli Gand et al. p. 67
2021Isochirotherium coureli Klein and Lucas p. 31

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
RankNameAuthor
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
familyChirotheriidaeAbel 1935
genusIsochirotherium
speciescoureli()

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.

Isochirotherium coureli Demathieu 1970
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: carnivoresubo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:38:45
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:38:45
Source: subo = suborder, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Benton 1983, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Anisian to the top of the Ladinian or 247.20000 to 237.00000 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Anisian247.2 - 242.0Morocco (Marrakech-Safi) Isochirotherium coureli (199858 199908)
Anisian247.2 - 242.0Spain (Aragon) Isochirotherium coureli (199856)
Anisian - Ladinian247.2 - 237.0France (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) Chirotherium coureli (type locality: 201284)
Anisian - Ladinian247.2 - 237.0France (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) Isochirotherium coureli (199928)
Middle Triassic247.2 - 237.0France (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) Chirotherium coureli (201286)
Middle Triassic247.2 - 237.0France (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) Chirotherium coureli (201285)
Middle Triassic247.2 - 237.0France ( Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) Chirotherium coureli (201287)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Argentina (Mendoza) Isochirotherium coureli (219953)