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Harpedactylus gracilior

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Harpedactylus gracilior was named by Hitchcock (1862). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is AC 47/52, 55/1, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is below Turners Falls, tracksite, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone/shale in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1862Harpedactylus gracilior Hitchcock p. 86
1865Harpedactylus gracilior Hitchcock p. 12 figs. Pl. 3:2
1871Harpedactylus gracilior Hitchcock p. xxi
1889Harpedactylus gracilior Hitchcock p. 119
1894Harpedactylus gracilior Lyman p. 205
1898Harpedactylus gracilior Hitchcock p. 402
1902Harpedactylus gracilior Hay p. 545
1904Harpedactylus gracilior Lull p. 528
1917Harpedactylus gracilior Lull p. 122
1930Harpedactylus gracilior Hay p. 13

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
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
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Saurischia()
genusHarpedactylus
speciesgracilior

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.

Harpedactylus gracilior Hitchcock 1862
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available