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Steropoides diversus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Ornithichnites diversus was named by Hitchcock (1836). It is a trace fossil. Its type locality is below Turners Falls, tracksite, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone/shale in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.

It was synonymized subjectively with Steropezoum elegans by Hitchcock (1848); it was synonymized subjectively with Tridentipes elegans by Miller (1879); it was synonymized subjectively with Steropoides elegans by Hay (1930); it was recombined as Steropoides diversus by Lull (1915), Lull (1917), Hitchcock and Grier (1927), Kuhn (1963), Haubold (1971).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1836Ornithichnites diversus Buckland p. 41
1836Ornithichnites diversus Hitchcock pp. 320-322 figs. 10, 16-17, 22-24
1837Ornithichnites diversus Hitchcock p. 175
1841Ornithoidichnites elegans Hitchcock p. 491
1844Ornithoidichnites elegans Hitchcock p. 306
1845Steropoides elegans Hitchcock
1848Steropezoum elegans Hitchcock p. 183
1850Ornithichnites diversus Harkness p. 441
1858Tridentipes elegans Hitchcock p. 90
1871Tridentipes elegans Hitchcock p. xxi
1879Tridentipes elegans Miller p. 147
1889Tridentipes elegans Hitchcock p. 118
1895Tridentipes elegans Lyman figs. Pl. 610
1898Tridentipes elegans Hitchcock p. 401
1902Steropoides elegans Hay p. 551
1904Steropoides elegans Lull p. 523
1915Steropoides diversus Lull p. 238
1917Steropoides diversus Lull p. 121
1927Steropoides diversus Hitchcock and Grier p. 194
1930Steropoides elegans Hay p. 21
1963Steropoides diversus Kuhn p. 97
1971Steropoides diversus Haubold p. 99

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
genusSteropoides
speciesdiversus()

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.

†Steropoides diversus Hitchcock 1836
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Invalid names: Tridentipes elegans Hitchcock 1841 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Hettangian or 201.40000 to 199.50000 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hettangian201.4 - 199.5USA (Massachusetts) Tridentipes elegans (52986)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.4 - 192.9USA (Massachusetts) Ornithichnites diversus (type locality: 52996 91666) Ornithichnites diversus, Ornithoidichnites elegans (52985) Ornithichnites diversus, Ornithoidichnites elegans, Tridentipes elegans (52993) Steropezoum elegans (52990) Tridentipes elegans (52998)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.4 - 192.9USA (Connecticut) Ornithoidichnites elegans (53000) Steropoides diversus (53023)