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Pteraichnus saltwashensis

Reptilia - Pteraichnidae

Taxonomy
Pteraichnus saltwashensis was named by Stokes (1957). It is considered to be a form taxon. It is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Sah Tah Wash tracksite, Four Corners, which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian levee sandstone/mudstone in the Morrison Formation of Arizona.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1957Pteraichnus saltwashensis Stokes
1971Pteraichnus saltwashensis Haubold p. 89
1974Pteraichnus saltwashensis Langston p. 99
1975Pteraichnus saltwashensis Sarjeant p. 310
1987Pteraichnus saltwashensis Conrad et al. p. 136
2000Pteraichnus saltwashensis Pascual Arribas and Sanz Pérez p. 90 fig. 22
2004Pteraichnus saltwashensis Fuentes Vidarte et al. p. 110
2006Pteraichnus saltwashensis Foster and Lockley p. 204
2009Pteraichnus saltwashensis Sánchez-Hernández et al. p. 490
2013Pteraichnus saltwashensis Xing et al. p. 48
2015Pteraichnus saltwashensis Li et al. p. 269
2018Pteraichnus saltwashensis Masrour et al. p. 285

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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
RankNameAuthor
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
PterosauromorphaPadian 1997
Pterosauria(Kaup 1834)
familyPteraichnidae
genusPteraichnus
speciessaltwashensis

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: volanto
Diet: piscivoreo
Created: 2009-01-04 11:38:30
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:39:23
Source: o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Padian 1985, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Callovian to the top of the Barremian or 164.70000 to 125.00000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Callovian - Oxfordian164.7 - 157.3USA (Utah) Pteraichnus saltwashensis (60478)
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian157.3 - 145.0USA (Arizona) Pteraichnus saltwashensis (type locality: 94678)
Hauterivian - Barremian132.9 - 125.0China (Xinjiang) Pteraichnus saltwashensis (220465 220468 220472 220475)