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Grallator emeiensis

Osteichthyes - Grallatoridae

Taxonomy
Grallator emeiensis was named by Zhen et al. (1994). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is CFEC-C-1, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Emei tracksite, Xingfu cliff, Chuanzhu, which is in a Barremian/Albian eolian mudstone/sandstone in the Jiaguan Formation of China.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Entered
by M. Carrano on 2008-04-09; modified by M. Carrano on 2021-05-08

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Grallator emeiensis Zhen et al. p. 112 fig. 3
2007Grallator emeiensis Wings et al. p. 125
2008Grallator emeiensis Fujita et al. p. 41 fig. 10
2008Grallator emeiensis Lockley et al. p. 116
2009Grallator emeiensis Xing et al. p. 669
2011Grallator emiensis Pascual-Arribas and Hernández-Medrano p. 78
2011Grallator emeiensis Xing et al. p. 478
2013Grallator emeiensis Lockley et al. p. 11
2013Grallator emeiensis Xing et al. p. 47
2015Grallator emeiensis Milàn and Surlyk p. 433
2015Grallator emeiensis Xing et al. p. 1011
2016Grallator emeiensis Xing et al. p. 37
2017Grallator emeiensis Wang et al. p. 88
2021Grallator emeiensis Leonardi and Carvalho p. 198

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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()
familyGrallatoridae
genusGrallator
speciesemeiensis

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.

Grallator emeiensis Zhen et al. 1994
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available