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Harpedactylus tenuissimus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Sauroidichnites tenuissimus was named by Hitchcock (1837). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is AC 27/8, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Wethersfield tracksite, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine shale/sandstone in the Portland Formation of Connecticut. It is the type species of Harpedactylus.

It was synonymized subjectively with Harpedactylus gracilis by Hitchcock (1848); it was recombined as Harpedactylus tenuissimus by Hitchcock (1845), Hitchcock (1845), Hay (1902), Lull (1904), Lull (1917) and Hay (1930).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
H. concamerata

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1837Sauroidichnites tenuissimus Hitchcock p. 175
1841Sauroidichnites tenuissimus Hitchcock p. 482
1844Sauroidichnites tenuissimus Hitchcock p. 307
1845Harpedactylus tenuissimus Hitchcock
1848Harpedactylus gracilis Hitchcock p. 206
1871Harpedactylus gracilis Hitchcock p. xxi
1889Harpedactylus gracilis Hitchcock p. 119
1894Harpedactylus gracilis Lyman p. 205
1898Harpedactylus gracilis Hitchcock p. 402
1902Harpedactylus tenuissimus Hay p. 545
1904Harpedactylus tenuissimus Lull pp. 527-528
1917Harpedactylus tenuissimus Lull p. 122
1930Harpedactylus tenuissimus Hay p. 13

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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
—Sauropsida
RankNameAuthor
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
genusHarpedactylus
speciestenuissimus()

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 tenuissimus Hitchcock 1837
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Invalid names: Harpedactylus gracilis Hitchcock 1848 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available