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Ancyropus heteroclitus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Sauroidichnites heteroclitus was named by Hitchcock (1841). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is AC 27/2, a footprint, and 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 is the type species of Ancyropus.

It was recombined as Ancyropus heteroclitus by Hitchcock (1845), Hitchcock (1848), Hitchcock (1871), Miller (1879), Hitchcock (1889), Hay (1902), Lull (1904), Lull (1917), Hay (1930) and Haubold (1971).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1841Sauroidichnites heteroclitus Hitchcock p. 478
1841Sauroidichnites jacksoni Hitchcock p. 479
1845Ancyropus jacksonianus Hitchcock
1845Ancyropus heteroclitus Hitchcock p. 24
1845Ancyropus jacksonianus Hitchcock p. 24
1848Ancyropus heteroclitus Hitchcock p. 243 figs. Pl. 15:3-5
1871Ancyropus heteroclitus Hitchcock p. xxi
1879Ancyropus heteroclitus Miller p. 147
1889Ancyropus heteroclitus Hitchcock p. 119
1902Ancyropus heteroclitus Hay p. 538
1904Ancyropus heteroclitus Lull p. 529
1917Ancyropus heteroclitus Lull p. 123
1930Ancyropus heteroclitus Hay p. 3
1971Ancyropus heteroclitus 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)
genusAncyropus
speciesheteroclitus()

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.

†Ancyropus heteroclitus Hitchcock 1841
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Invalid names: Sauroidichnites jacksoni Hitchcock 1841 [synonym]
Diagnosis
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