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