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Typopus

Taxonomy
Typopus was named by Hitchcock (1845). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type is Sauroidichnites abnormis.

It was assigned to Tridactylidaee by Hitchcock (1845); to Tetrapoda by Lull (1904); and to Amphibia by Kuhn (1958).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1845Typopus Hitchcock p. 25
1904Typopus Lull p. 542
1958Typopus Kuhn p. 18

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
RankNameAuthor
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
genusTypopus

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. †Typopus Hitchcock 1845
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†Typopus abnormis Hitchcock 1844
†Typopus gracilis Hitchcock 1858
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: brackish, freshwater, terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:19
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:19
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Triassic to the top of the Sinemurian or 237.00000 to 190.80000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Triassic237.0 - 201.4United Kingdom (England) T. sp. (174686)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.3 - 190.8USA (Connecticut) T. gracilis (53000)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.3 - 190.8USA (Massachusetts) Sauroidichnites abnormis (52985) T. abnormis (52998)