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Chirotherium herculis

Reptilia - Chirotheriidae

Taxonomy
Chirotherium herculis was named by Egerton (1839). It is considered to be a form taxon. It is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Tarporley, which is in a Triassic terrestrial sandstone in the United Kingdom.

It was considered a nomen dubium by King et al. (2005); it was recombined as Isochirotherium herculis by Haubold (1971), Demathieu and Haubold (1972), Haubold (1974), Courel and Demathieu (1976), Demathieu and Demathieu (2004), Gand et al. (2007), Clark and Corrance (2009), Klein et al. (2011), Gand et al. (2012) and Klein and Lucas (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1839Chirotherium herculis Egerton
1842Cheirotherium hercules Owen p. 188
1846Chirotherium herculis Girard p. 17
1854Cheirotherium hercules Mantell p. 753
1902Chirotherium herculis Beasley p. 18
1948Chirotherium herculis Peabody p. 344
1954Chirotherium herculis Baird p. 174
1958Chirotherium herculis Kuhn p. 21
1971Isochirotherium herculis Haubold p. 55
1972Isochirotherium herculis Demathieu and Haubold p. 805
1974Isochirotherium herculis Haubold p. 103
1976Isochirotherium herculis Courel and Demathieu p. 202
2004Isochirotherium herculis Demathieu and Demathieu p. 85
2007Isochirotherium herculis Gand et al. p. 6
2009Isochirotherium herculis Clark and Corrance
2011Isochirotherium herculis Klein et al. p. 223
2012Isochirotherium herculis Gand et al. p. 68
2021Isochirotherium herculis Klein and Lucas p. 31

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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()
RankNameAuthor
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
familyChirotheriidaeAbel 1935
genusChirotheriumKaup 1835
speciesherculisEgerton 1839

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.

†Chirotherium herculis Egerton 1839
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: carnivoresubo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:38:45
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:38:45
Source: subo = suborder, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Benton 1983, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Early/Lower Triassic or 252.17000 to 247.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Triassic252.17 - 247.2United Kingdom (England) Chirotherium herculis (type locality: 164932)