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Platypterna deanii

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Ornithichnites deanii was named by Hitchcock (1837). It is considered to be a form taxon. It is a trace fossil. Its type locality is The Cove, Wethersfield, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine shale in the Portland Formation of Connecticut. It is the type species of Platypterna.

It was recombined as Ornithoidichnites deanii by Hitchcock (1841); it was recombined as Platypterna deanianus by Hitchcock (1845); it was recombined as Platypterna deaniana by Hitchcock (1848), Warren (1854), Hitchcock (1871), Hitchcock (1889), Hitchcock (1898), Hay (1902), Lull (1904) and Hay (1930); it was recombined as Platypterna deanii by Lull (1917), Hitchcock and Grier (1927) and Haubold (1971).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1837Ornithichnites deanii Hitchcock p. 175
1841Ornithoidichnites deanii Hitchcock p. 493
1845Platypterna deanianus Hitchcock p. 25
1848Platypterna deaniana Hitchcock p. 189
1854Platypterna deaniana Warren p. 29
1871Platypterna deaniana Hitchcock p. xxi
1889Platypterna deaniana Hitchcock p. 118
1898Platypterna deaniana Hitchcock p. 401
1902Platypterna deaniana Hay p. 549
1904Platypterna deaniana Lull p. 516
1917Platypterna deanii Lull p. 119
1927Platypterna deanii Hitchcock and Grier p. 192
1930Platypterna deaniana Hay p. 18
1971Platypterna deanii Haubold p. 82

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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
RankNameAuthor
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
genusPlatypterna
speciesdeanii()

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.

†Platypterna deanii Hitchcock 1837
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available