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Icadyptes salasi

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Icadyptes salasi was named by Clarke et al. (2007). Its type specimen is MUSM 897, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ullujaya Valley, which is in a Priabonian marginal marine sandstone in the Otuma Formation of Peru.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2007Icadyptes salasi Clarke et al. p. 11545 figs. Figure 1
2008Icadyptes salasi Acosta Hospitaleche and Tambussi p. 124

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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()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
RankNameAuthor
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Theropoda()
Tetanurae
Coelurosauria()
Maniraptora
Paraves
classAves
subclassNeornithesGadow 1893
Aequornithes
Feraequornithes
superorderProcellariimorphae
Sphenisciformes(Sharpe 1891)
genusIcadyptes
speciessalasi

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Icadyptes salasi Clarke et al. 2007
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
C. Acosta Hospitaleche and C. Tambussi 2008Beak forming more than two-thirds of
the skull length, fusion of the premaxillae and palatines, axis with an elongate hypophysis terminating in a greatly mediolaterally expanded disk-like plate, a deep ovoid fossa on the lateral surface of the acrocoracoid process, humerus straight and broad, metacarpal I with a flat carpal trochlea, and metacarpals II and III subequal in distal extent (Clarke et al., 2007).