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Tarsodactylus expansus

Reptilia - Batrachopodidae

Taxonomy
Tarsodactylus expansus was named by Hitchcock (1866) [article printed April 9, 1866; volume published 1867]. It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is Hitchcock Cabinet, Dartmouth, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is northeast Deerfield tracksite, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian terrestrial sandstone in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1866Tarsodactylus expansus Hitchcock p. 301–302
1871Tarsodactylus expansus Hitchcock p. xxi
1889Tarsodactylus expansus Hitchcock p. 118
1898Tarsodactylus expansus Hitchcock p. 401
1902Tarsodactylus expansus Hay p. 552
1904Tarsodactylus expansus Lull p. 527
1917Tarsodactylus expansus Lull p. 122
1927Tarsodactylus expansus Hitchcock and Grier p. 195
1930Tarsodactylus expansus Hay p. 21
1971Tarsodactylus expansus Haubold p. 63

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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()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
—SuchiaKrebs 1974
—Aetosauria(Lydekker 1889)
familyBatrachopodidae
genusTarsodactylus
speciesexpansusHitchcock 1866

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.

†Tarsodactylus expansus Hitchcock 1866
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available