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Helcura anguinea

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Helcura anguinea was named by Hitchcock (1858). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is AC 40/8, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Lily Pond Quarry, Gill, which is in a Hettangian fluvial-lacustrine siltstone/sandstone in the Turners Falls Formation of Massachusetts.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1858Helcura anguinea Hitchcock p. 141
1871Helcura anguinea Hitchcock p. xxi
1889Helcura anguinea Hitchcock p. 119
1894Helcura anguinea Lyman p. 206
1902Helcura anguinea Hay p. 546
1904Helcura anguinea Lull p. 530
1917Helcura anguinea Lull p. 123
1930Helcura anguinea Hay p. 14
1971Helcura anguinea Haubold p. 101

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

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.

Helcura anguinea Hitchcock 1858
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Hettangian or 201.30000 to 199.30000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hettangian201.3 - 199.3USA (Massachusetts) Helcura anguinea (type locality: 52986)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.3 - 190.8USA (Massachusetts) Helcura anguinea (52996)