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Urubitinga enecta

Reptilia - Accipitriformes - Accipitridae

Taxonomy
Urubitinga enecta was named by Wetmore (1923). It is considered to be a form taxon. It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Thomson Quarry, which is in a Hemingfordian terrestrial horizon in the Sheep Creek Formation of Nebraska.

It was recombined as Hypomorphnus enecta by Wetmore (1940) and Wetmore (1956).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1923Urubitinga enecta Wetmore p. 500
1926Urubitinga enecta Wetmore p. 1
1930Urubitinga enecta Hay p. 318
1933Urubitinga enecta Lambrecht p. 418
1940Hypomorphnus enecta Wetmore p. 37
1956Hypomorphnus enecta Wetmore p. 44

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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()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
orderAccipitriformesVieillot 1816
familyAccipitridaeViellot 1816
subfamilyButeoninaeVigors 1824
genusUrubitingaLesson 1839
speciesenectaWetmore 1923

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.

†Urubitinga enecta Wetmore 1923
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available