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Amblypus dextratus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Amblypus dextratus was named by Hitchcock (1858). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is AC 34/27, 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 Amblypus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1858Amblypus dextratus Hitchcock p. 143
1871Amblypus dextratus Hitchcock p. xxi
1889Amblypus dextratus Hitchcock p. 119
1902Amblypus dextratus Hay p. 538
1904Amblypus dextratus Lull p. 530
1917Amblypus dextratus Lull p. 123
1930Amblypus dextratus Hay p. 2
1971Amblypus dextratus Haubold p. 100

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
—Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
genusAmblypus
speciesdextratus

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.

†Amblypus dextratus Hitchcock 1858
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Diagnosis
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