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Batrachopus bellus

Osteichthyes - Batrachopodidae

Taxonomy
Apatichnus bellus was named by Hitchcock (1858). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is ACM-ICH 26/21, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Roswell Field's Orchard, Gill, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone/shale in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.

It was synonymized subjectively with Batrachopus deweyi by Olsen and Padian (1986); it was recombined as Batrachopus bellus by Lull (1915), Lull (1917), Hay (1930), Haubold (1971), Gallagher and Hanczaryk (2006), Rainforth (2007), Foster et al. (2025).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1858Apatichnus bellus Hitchcock p. 101
1865Comptichnus obesus Hitchcock p. 9 figs. Pl. 5:4, 18:6
1871Apatichnus bellus Hitchcock p. xxi
1871Comptichnus obesus Hitchcock p. xxi
1889Apatichnus bellus Hitchcock p. 118
1889Comptichnus obesus Hitchcock p. 119
1894Comptichnus obesus Lyman p. 205
1894Apatichnus bellus Lyman p. 206
1898Apatichnus bellus Hitchcock p. 401
1898Comptichnus obesus Hitchcock p. 402
1902Apatichnus bellus Hay p. 540
1902Comptichnus obesus Hay p. 542
1904Comptichnus obesus Lull p. 538
1915Batrachopus bellus Lull p. 178
1917Batrachopus bellus Lull p. 113
1917Comptichnus obesus Lull p. 126
1930Batrachopus bellus Hay p. 8
1930Comptichnus obesus Hay p. 10
1969Comptichnus obesus Haubold p. 98 fig. 7
1971Batrachopus bellus Haubold p. 61
1971Batrachopus obesus Haubold p. 61
2006Batrachopus bellus Gallagher and Hanczaryk p. 240
2007Batrachopus bellus Rainforth p. 54
2025Batrachopus bellus Foster 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()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
—SuchiaKrebs 1974
—Aetosauria(Lydekker 1889)
familyBatrachopodidae
genusBatrachopus
speciesbellus()

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.

†Batrachopus bellus Hitchcock 1858
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Invalid names: Comptichnus obesus Hitchcock 1865 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: planktonicp
Diet: herbivoresubo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:38:33
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:38:33
Source: subo = suborder, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Benton 1983, Carroll 1988, Bambach et al. 2007, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Rhaetian to the top of the Hettangian or 205.70000 to 199.50000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Rhaetian205.7 - 201.4USA (New Jersey) Batrachopus bellus (194093)
Hettangian201.4 - 199.5USA (Massachusetts) Apatichnus bellus (53030) Comptichnus obesus, Apatichnus bellus (52986)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.4 - 192.9USA (Massachusetts) Apatichnus bellus (type locality: 52987)