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Ornithopus adamsanus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Ornithopus adamsanus was named by Hitchcock (1848). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is no. 125, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Montague City, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.

It was synonymized subjectively with Steropoides ingens by Hay (1902).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1848Ornithopus adamsanus Hitchcock p. 191 figs. Pl. 7:5

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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
genusOrnithopus
speciesadamsanus

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.

†Ornithopus adamsanus Hitchcock 1848
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available