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Eubrontes lyellii

Reptilia - Grallatoridae

Taxonomy
Ornithoidichnites lyellii was named by Hitchcock (1843). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is AC 1/1, 1/7, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Lily Pond Quarry, Gill, which is in a Hettangian fluvial-lacustrine siltstone/sandstone in the Turners Falls Formation of Massachusetts. It is the type species of Fulicopus.

It was recombined as Fulicopus lyellianus by Hitchcock (1845), Hay (1902), Lull (1904) and Hay (1930); it was recombined as Aethyopus lyellianus by Hitchcock (1848) and Warren (1854); it was recombined as Amblonyx lyellianus by Hitchcock (1858), Hitchcock (1871), Hitchcock (1889), Lyman (1894) and Hitchcock (1898); it was synonymized subjectively with Sauropus barrattii by Lull (1915), Lull (1953), Kuhn (1963) and Haubold (1971); it was recombined as Eubrontes lyellii by Rainforth (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1843Ornithoidichnites lyellii Hitchcock pp. 257-258 figs. Pl. 11:1
1845Fulicopus lyellianus Hitchcock p. 23
1848Aethyopus lyellianus Hitchcock p. 178 figs. Pl. 4:1
1854Aethyopus lyellianus Warren p. 28
1858Amblonyx lyellianus Hitchcock p. 71
1871Amblonyx lyellianus Hitchcock p. xxi
1889Amblonyx lyellianus Hitchcock p. 118
1894Amblonyx lyellianus Lyman p. 205
1898Amblonyx lyellianus Hitchcock p. 401
1902Fulicopus lyellianus Hay p. 544
1904Fulicopus lyellianus Lull pp. 506-508 figs. 26-28
1930Fulicopus lyellianus Hay p. 12
2007Eubrontes lyellii Rainforth p. 50

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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()
familyGrallatoridae
genusEubrontes
specieslyellii()

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.

†Eubrontes lyellii Hitchcock 1843
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available