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Platypterna tenuis

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Ornithoidichnites tenuis was named by Hitchcock (1837). It is considered to be a form taxon. It is a trace fossil. Its type locality is The Cove, Wethersfield, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine shale in the Portland Formation of Connecticut.

It was recombined as Platypterna tenuis by Hitchcock (1845), Hitchcock (1848), Hitchcock (1871), Hitchcock (1889), Hitchcock (1898), Hay (1902), Lull (1904), Lull (1917), Hay (1930), Haubold (1971).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1837Ornithoidichnites tenuis Hitchcock p. 175
1841Ornithoidichnites tenuis Hitchcock p. 494
1845Platypterna tenuis Hitchcock p. 25
1848Platypterna tenuis Hitchcock p. 189
1871Platypterna tenuis Hitchcock p. xxi
1889Platypterna tenuis Hitchcock p. 118
1898Platypterna tenuis Hitchcock p. 401
1902Platypterna tenuis Hay p. 549
1904Platypterna tenuis Lull p. 517
1917Platypterna tenuis Lull p. 120
1930Platypterna tenuis Hay p. 19
1971Platypterna tenuis Haubold p. 82

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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()
genusPlatypterna
speciestenuis()

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.

†Platypterna tenuis Hitchcock 1837
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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, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Hettangian to the top of the Sinemurian or 201.40000 to 192.90000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.4 - 192.9USA (Connecticut) Ornithoidichnites tenuis (type locality: 53000) Platypterna tenuis (53023)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.4 - 192.9USA (Massachusetts) Ornithoidichnites tenuis (53028)