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Irenesauripus mclearni

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Irenesauripus mclearni was named by Sternberg (1932). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is NMC 8548, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is 2 miles upstream from Gething's mine, Peace River Canyon, which is in an Albian terrestrial sandstone/coal in the Gething Formation of Canada.

Entered
by M. Carrano on 2006-09-06; modified by M. Carrano on 2022-12-14

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1932Irenesauripus mclearni Sternberg p. 62 figs. 1, Pl. 1-2
1958Irenesauripus mclearni Kuhn p. 28
1963Irenesauripus mclearni Kuhn p. 108
1971Irenesauripus mclearni Haubold p. 79
1974Irenesauripus mclearni Haubold p. 143
1974Irenesauripus mclearni Langston p. 94
1981Irenesauripus mclearni Sarjeant p. 170
1983Irenesauripus mclearni Currie p. 65
1984Irenesauripus mclearni Thulborn and Wade p. 449
1987Irenesauripus mclearni Farlow p. 12
2004Irenesauripus mclearni Gangloff et al. p. 303
2005Irenesauripus mclearni Harington et al. p. 85
2011Irenesauripus mclearni Xing et al. p. 474
2014Irenesauripus mclearni McCrea et al. p. 8
2014Irenesauripus mclearni Xing et al. p. 88
2015Irenesauripus mcclearni Currie and Koppelhus p. 626
2015Irenesauripus mclearni McCrea et al. p. 239
2016Irenesauripus mclearni Salisbury et al. p. 31
2017Irenesauripus mclearni Sciscio et al. p. 17 fig. 6
2018Irenesauripus mclearni Lee et al. p. 214
2020Irenesauripus mclearni Bessedik et al. p. 37

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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
RankNameAuthor
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
genusIrenesauripus
speciesmclearni

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.

†Irenesauripus mclearni Sternberg 1932
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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: carnivoreo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2004-12-14 12:50:08
Modified: 2004-12-14 14:50:08
Source: o = order
References: Kiessling 2004, Marsh 1875

Age range: Middle Albian or 110.10000 to 106.30000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aptian - Albian121.4 - 100.5Canada (British Columbia) Irenesauripus mclearni (52590 126799 126806 214470 214471)
Albian113.2 - 100.5Canada (British Columbia) Dinosauria indet. (64145) Irenesauripus mclearni (type locality: 64386)
Albian113.2 - 100.5Canada (Alberta) Irenesauripus mclearni (52879 227217)
Middle Albian110.1 - 106.3Canada (Alberta) Irenesauripus mclearni (52371)