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Synaptichnium cameronensis

Reptilia - Chirotheriidae

Taxonomy
Chirotherium cameronensis was named by Peabody (1948). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is UCMP 37316, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is UCMP V4204, Cameron, which is in an Aegean/Bithynian terrestrial mudstone in the Moenkopi Formation of Arizona.

It was recombined as Synaptichnium cameronensis by Klein and Lucas (2010) and Gand et al. (2012); it was recombined as Synaptichnium cameronense by Haubold (1971), Demathieu and Haubold (1972), Haubold (1974), Gand et al. (2007), Klein et al. (2011) and Klein and Lucas (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1948Chirotherium cameronensis Peabody pp. 355-356 figs. Pl. 36, 40A
1954Chirotherium cameronensis Baird p. 168
1958Chirotherium cameronense Kuhn p. 21
1969Chirotherium cameronense Haubold p. 92 fig. 2
1971Synaptichnium cameronense Haubold p. 54
1972Synaptichnium cameronense Demathieu and Haubold p. 804
1974Synaptichnium cameronense Haubold p. 107
2007Synaptichnium cameronense Gand et al. p. 12
2010Synaptichnium cameronensis Klein and Lucas p. 19
2011Synaptichnium cameronense Klein et al. p. 223
2012Synaptichnium cameronensis Gand et al. p. 69
2021Synaptichnium cameronense Klein and Lucas p. 38

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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()
RankNameAuthor
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
familyChirotheriidaeAbel 1935
genusSynaptichniumNopcsa 1923
speciescameronensis()

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.

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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
F. E. Peabody 1948Relatively narrow, long striding trackway, pace angulation 180 degrees; pes length 5 cm., pes digit IV as long as III, digit V short and slender without specialized pad; manus digits I-IV relatively long, pes digits relatively widespread.