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Argoides minimus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Ornithichnites minimus was named by Hitchcock (1836). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is AC 25/1, 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.

It was recombined as Ornithoidichnites minimus by Hitchcock (1837); it was recombined as Argozoum minimum by Hitchcock (1848), Miller (1879) and Quenstedt (1882); it was recombined as Plesiornis minimus by Hay (1902); it was synonymized subjectively with Argoides isodactyletus by Lull (1904); it was recombined as Argoides minimus by Hitchcock (1845), Adams (1846), Lull (1917), Hitchcock and Grier (1927), Hay (1930), Kuhn (1963) and Haubold (1971).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1836Ornithichnites minimus Buckland p. 41
1836Ornithichnites minimus Hitchcock p. 325 fig. 9
1837Ornithichnites minimus Hitchcock p. 175
1837Ornithoidichnites minimus Hitchcock p. 175
1841Ornithoidichnites isodactylus Hitchcock p. 496
1845Argoides isodactyletus Hitchcock
1845Argoides minimus Hitchcock p. 24
1846Argoides minimus Adams p. 215
1848Argozoum minimum Hitchcock p. 187
1848Argozoum paridigitatum Hitchcock p. 187
1854Argozoum paridigitatum Warren p. 29
1858Plesiornis aequalipes Hitchcock p. 104
1871Argozoum paridigitatum Hitchcock p. xxi
1871Plesiornis aequalipes Hitchcock p. xxi
1879Argozoum minimum Miller p. 147
1882Argozoum minimum Quenstedt p. 131
1889Argozoum paridigitatum Hitchcock p. 118
1889Plesiornis aequalipes Hitchcock p. 118
1894Argozoum paridigitatum Lyman p. 206
1898Argozoum paridigitatum Hitchcock p. 401
1902Argoides isodactylatus Hay p. 540
1902Plesiornis minimus Hay p. 550
1904Argoides isodactyletus Lull p. 518
1917Argoides minimus Lull p. 120
1927Argoides minimus Hitchcock and Grier p. 196
1930Argoides isodactyletus Hay p. 6
1930Argoides minimus Hay p. 6
1963Plesiornis aequalipes Kuhn p. 82
1963Argoides minimus Kuhn p. 96
1971Argoides minimus Haubold p. 81

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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()
genusArgoides
speciesminimus()

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.

Argoides minimus Hitchcock 1836
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Invalid names: Argoides isodactyletus Hitchcock 1841 [synonym], Argozoum paridigitatum Hitchcock 1848 [synonym], Plesiornis aequalipes Hitchcock 1858 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available