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Anomoepus lacertoideus

Reptilia - Moyenisauropodidae

Taxonomy
Corvipes lacertoideus was named by Hitchcock (1858). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is ACM-ICH 32/1, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Lily Pond Quarry, Gill, which is in a Hettangian fluvial-lacustrine siltstone/sandstone in the Turners Falls Formation of Massachusetts. It is the type species of Corvipes.

It was recombined as Anomoepus lacertoideus by Dalman and Weems (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1858Corvipes lacertoideus Hitchcock p. 98 figs. Pl. 17:3, Pl. 47:1, Pl. 35:7
1871Corvipes lacertoideus Hitchcock p. xxi
1889Corvipes lacertoideus Hitchcock p. 118
1894Corvipes lacertoideus Lyman p. 205
1898Corvipes lacertoideus Hitchcock p. 401
1902Corvipes lacertoideus Hay p. 542
1904Corvipes lacertoideus Lull p. 510
1917Corvipes lacertoideus Lull p. 123
1930Corvipes lacertoideus Hay p. 10
1971Corvipes lacertoideus Haubold p. 96
2013Anomoepus lacertoideus Dalman and Weems p. 74–75

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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()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
RankNameAuthor
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Ornithischia()
—Genasauria
—Cerapoda
—Ornithopoda()
familyMoyenisauropodidae
genusAnomoepus
specieslacertoideus()

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.

†Anomoepus lacertoideus Hitchcock 1858
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
S. G. Dalman and R. E. Weems 2013Pes. small, tetradactyl but functionally tridactyl, usually digitigrade but occasionally semiplantigrade or plantigrade; lengths of pes imprints ranges from 23 to 45 mm, width ranges from 16 to 42 mm; relative digit lengths are III > IV > II > I; ungual marks discernible on at least some examples of each digit; divarication of pes digits II and III ranges from 25° to 43°, III and IV from 31° to 58°, and II and IV from 45° to 85°; digital pad formula 1–3–3–3–3; three metatarsophalangeal pads that are close together.
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: gregariouso
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: herbivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:40:05
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:40:05
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Hettangian or 201.40000 to 199.50000 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hettangian201.4 - 199.5USA (Massachusetts) Anomoepus sp. (55331) Corvipes lacertoideus (type locality: 52986)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.4 - 192.9USA (Connecticut) Corvipes lacertoideus (53000 53023)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.4 - 192.9USA (Massachusetts) Corvipes lacertoideus (52985 52987 52996)