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Pteraichnus saltwashensis

Osteichthyes - Pterosauria - Pteraichnidae

Taxonomy
Pteraichnus saltwashensis was named by Stokes (1957). It is considered to be a form taxon. It is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Sah Tah Wash tracksite, Four Corners, which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian levee sandstone/mudstone in the Morrison Formation of Arizona.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1957Pteraichnus saltwashensis Stokes
1971Pteraichnus saltwashensis Haubold p. 89
1974Pteraichnus saltwashensis Langston p. 99
1975Pteraichnus saltwashensis Sarjeant p. 310
1987Pteraichnus saltwashensis Conrad et al. p. 136
2000Pteraichnus saltwashensis Pascual Arribas and Sanz Pérez p. 90 fig. 22
2004Pteraichnus saltwashensis Fuentes Vidarte et al. p. 110
2006Pteraichnus saltwashensis Foster and Lockley p. 204
2009Pteraichnus saltwashensis Sánchez-Hernández et al. p. 490
2013Pteraichnus saltwashensis Xing et al. p. 48
2015Pteraichnus saltwashensis Li et al. p. 269
2018Pteraichnus saltwashensis Masrour et al. p. 285

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
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
—PterosauromorphaPadian 1997
orderPterosauriaKaup 1834
familyPteraichnidae
genusPteraichnus
speciessaltwashensis

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: marineo
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: volanto
Diet: piscivoreo
Created: 2009-01-04 11:38:30
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:39:23
Source: o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Padian 1985, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Callovian to the top of the Valanginian or 165.30000 to 132.60000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Callovian - Oxfordian165.3 - 154.8USA (Utah) Pteraichnus saltwashensis (60478)
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian154.8 - 143.1USA (Arizona) Pteraichnus saltwashensis (type locality: 94678)
Berriasian - Valanginian143.1 - 132.6China (Xinjiang) Pteraichnus saltwashensis (220465 220475)
Valanginian137.05 - 132.6China (Xinjiang) Pteraichnus saltwashensis (220468 220472)