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Anticheiropus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Anticheiropus was named by Hitchcock (1865). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type is Anticheiropus hamatus.

It was assigned to Dinosauria by Hitchcock (1898); to Reptilia by Lull (1904); to Dinosauria by Kuhn (1958); to Saurischia by Haubold (1971), Haubold (1974); and to Dinosauria by Romero Molina et al. (2003).

Species
A. hamatus (type species), A. pilulatus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Anticheiropus Hitchcock p. 10
1898Anticheiropus Hitchcock p. 401
1904Anticheiropus Lull p. 540
1958Anticheiropus Kuhn p. 24
1971Anticheiropus Haubold p. 81
1974Anticheiropus Haubold p. 46
2003Anticheiropus Romero Molina et al. p. 27

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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()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
genusAnticheiropus

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.

G. †Anticheiropus Hitchcock 1865
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†Anticheiropus hamatus Hitchcock 1865
†Anticheiropus pilulatus Hitchcock 1865
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: Hettangian or 201.30000 to 199.30000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hettangian201.3 - 199.3USA (Massachusetts) A. hamatus (52986)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.3 - 190.8USA (Massachusetts) A. hamatus, A. pilulatus (52993)