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Plectropus longipes

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Sauroidichnites longipes was named by Hitchcock (1841). It is considered to be a form taxon. It is a trace fossil. Its type locality is The Cove, Wethersfield, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine shale in the Portland Formation of Connecticut.

It was recombined as Plectropus longipes by Hitchcock (1845) and Hitchcock (1848); it was synonymized subjectively with Plectropterna minitans by Hay (1902).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1841Sauroidichnites longipes Hitchcock p. 482
1845Plectropus longipes Hitchcock p. 24
1848Plectropus longipes Hitchcock p. 199 figs. Pls. 8:4, 10:1-3
1879Sauroidichnites longipes Miller p. 147

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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()
—Theropoda()
genusPlectropus
specieslongipes()

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.

†Plectropus longipes Hitchcock 1841
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available