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Xiphopeza triplex

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Xiphopeza triplex was named by Hitchcock (1848). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is AC 41/26, 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. It is the type species of Xiphopeza.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1848Xiphopeza triplex Hitchcock p. 239 figs. Pl. 15:8
1871Xiphopeza triplex Hitchcock p. xxi
1889Xiphopeza triplex Hitchcock p. 119
1894Xiphopeza triplex Lyman p. 205
1898Xiphopeza triplex Hitchcock p. 402
1902Xiphopeza triplex Hay p. 553
1904Xiphopeza triplex Lull p. 526
1917Xiphopeza triplex Lull p. 122
1930Xiphopeza triplex Hay p. 23

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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
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
genusXiphopeza
speciestriplex

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.

†Xiphopeza triplex Hitchcock 1848
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available