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Kalohipus bretunensis

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Kalohipus bretunensis was named by Fuentes Vidarte and Meijide Calvo (1998). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is footprint 21, trackway 5, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Santa Cristina I tracksite, which is in a Berriasian terrestrial siltstone/shale in the Huérteles Formation of Spain.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1998Kalohipus bretunensis Fuentes Vidarte and Meijide Calvo p. 151
2004Kalohipus bretunensis Fuentes Vidarte et al. p. 106
2005Kalohipus bretunensis Barco and Ruiz-Omeñaca p. 66
2009Kalohipus bretunensis Gierlinski et al. p. 222
2011Kalohipus bretunensis Pascual-Arribas and Hernández-Medrano p. 78
2014Kalohipus bretunensis Castanera et al. p. 61

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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()
genusKalohipus
speciesbretunensis

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.

†Kalohipus bretunensis Fuentes Vidarte and Meijide Calvo 1998
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
C. Fuentes Vidarte and M. Meijide Calvo 1998Icnitas tridáctilas, de 5,5 a 7,5 cm. De longitud, pertenecientes a un dinosaurio bípedo digitígrado. Dedos relativamente robustos, acuminados y con uñas y almohadillos plantares. Los dedos II y IV de desarrollo similar y el III mucho más largo; hypex prácticamente simétricos. Superficie plantar relativamente grande. Talón ovalado, prolongado y con fuertes escotaduras. Anulación interdigital II-IV baja (69° medial). L/A variable entre 1,2 y 1,7. Rastro bípedo y estrecho (amplitud 5-7). Angulo de paso entre 170° y 175°.