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Plectropterna angusta

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Plectropterna angusta was named by Hitchcock (1858). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is AC 33/39, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Roswell Field's Orchard, Gill, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone/shale in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.

It was recombined as Tarsoplectrus angustus by Lull (1904).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1858Plectropterna angusta Hitchcock p. 110
1871Plectropterna angusta Hitchcock p. xxi
1889Plectropterna angusta Hitchcock p. 119
1894Plectropterna angusta Lyman p. 205
1895Plectropterna angusta Lyman figs. Pl. 608
1898Plectropterna angusta Hitchcock p. 402
1904Tarsoplectrus angustus Lull p. 520
1917Plectropterna angusta Lull p. 120
1930Plectropterna angusta Hay p. 19

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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()
genusPlectropternaHitchcock 1845
speciesangusta

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.

Plectropterna angusta Hitchcock 1858
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Hettangian or 201.30000 to 199.30000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hettangian201.3 - 199.3USA (Massachusetts) Plectropterna angusta (52986)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.3 - 190.8USA (Massachusetts) Plectropterna angusta (type locality: 52987)