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Triaenopus emmonsii

Amphibia

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

It was recombined as Triaenopus emmonsianus by Hitchcock (1845), Hitchcock (1848) and Warren (1854); it was synonymized subjectively with Triaenopus baileyanus by Hay (1902) and Lull (1904); it was recombined as Triaenopus emmonsii by Haubold (1971).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1841Sauroidichnites emmonsii Hitchcock p. 479
1841Sauroidichnites baileyi Hitchcock p. 480
1845Triaenopus baileyanus Hitchcock p. 24
1845Triaenopus emmonsianus Hitchcock p. 24
1848Triaenopus baileyanus Hitchcock p. 204
1848Triaenopus emmonsianus Hitchcock pp. 204-205
1854Triaenopus baileyanus Warren p. 31
1854Triaenopus emmonsianus Warren p. 31
1902Triaenopus baileyanus Hay p. 553
1904Triaenopus baileyanus Lull p. 539
1917Triaenopus baileyi Lull p. 126
1930Triaenopus baileyanus Hay p. 22
1971Triaenopus emmonsii Haubold p. 96

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
RankNameAuthor
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
subclassApsidospondyli
superorderLabyrinthodontia()
genusTriaenopus
speciesemmonsii()

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.

†Triaenopus emmonsii Hitchcock 1841
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Invalid names: Sauroidichnites baileyi Hitchcock 1841 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available