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Nesotrochis debooyi (Antillean cave rail)

Osteichthyes - Gruiformes - Nesotrochidae

Taxonomy
Nesotrochis debooyi was named by Wetmore (1918). Its type specimen is USNM 225845, a limb element (right femur), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Magen's Bay, St. Thomas (de Booy collection), which is in a Holocene terrestrial siliciclastic in Virgin Islands. It is the type species of Nesotrochis.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1918Nesotrochis debooyi Wetmore p. 516 figs. Pl 82, figs 1-5
1922Nesotrochis debooyi Wetmore p. 307 figs. 3-9
1933Nesotrochis debooyi Lambrecht p. 467
1937Nesotrochis debooyi Wetmore p. 9 figs. Pl, figs 1-7
1956Nesotrochis debooyi Wetmore p. 65
1967Nesotrochis debooyi Brodkorb p. 127
1974Nesotrochis debooyi Brodkorb p. 239
1974Nesotrochis debooyi Olson p. 439
1977Nesotrochis debooyi Olson p. 352
2025Nesotrochis debooyi Stervander et al. p. 90

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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
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
RankNameAuthor
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
subclassNeornithesGadow 1893
—Neognathae(Pycraft 1900)
—NeoavesSibley et al. 1988
—Terrestrornithes
—Telmatorae
superorderCharadriimorphaeHuxley 1867
orderGruiformesBonaparte 1854
familyNesotrochidae
genusNesotrochis
speciesdebooyi

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.

†Nesotrochis debooyi Wetmore 1918 [Antillean cave rail]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: solitaryo
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:39:15
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:39:15
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Holocene or 0.01170 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene0.129 - 0.0Puerto Rico Nesotrochis debooyi (38848 127081 192222 241335)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Virgin Islands, U.S. Nesotrochis debooyi (type locality: 28879 38847 132605 241342 241343)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Puerto Rico Nesotrochis debooyi (194583)