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Podokesaurus holyokensis

Reptilia - Coelophysidae

Taxonomy
Podokesaurus holyokensis was named by Talbot (1911) [type specimen has been destroyed]. Its type specimen is Mount Holyoke College, a set of postcrania, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Boynton farm, South Hadley, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian terrestrial sandstone in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.

It was recombined as Coelophysis holyokensis by Colbert (1964), Swinton (1970) and Steel (1970); it was considered a nomen dubium by Rowe and Gauthier (1990).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1911Podokesaurus holyokensis Talbot
1912Podokesaurus holyokensis Lull p. 411
1914Podokesaurus holyokensis Huene p. 11
1915Podokesaurus holyokensis Lull pp. 156-157 figs. Pl. 11
1916Podokesaurus holyokensis Shufeldt p. 258–259
1917Podokesaurus holyokensis Lull p. 111
1921Podokesaurus holyokensis Huene p. 320
1926Podokesaurus holyokensis Huene p. 6
1930Podokesaurus holyokensis Hay p. 187
1939Podokesaurus holyokensis Kuhn p. 35
1952Podokesaurus holyokensis Bock p. 402
1953Podokesaurus holyokensis Lull p. 131
1958Podokesaurus holyokensis Kuhn p. 22
1964Coelophysis holyokensis Colbert p. 9
1965Podokesaurus holyokensis Simmons p. 56
1970Coelophysis holyokensis Steel p. 10
1970Coelophysis holyokensis Swinton p. 123
1984Podokesaurus holyokensis Welles p. 172
2004Podokesaurus holyokensis Tykoski and Rowe p. 48
2006Podokesaurus holyokensis Weishampel pp. 136-137
2011Podokesaurus holyokensis Getty and Bush p. 412

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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
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
RankNameAuthor
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
superfamilyCoelophysoidea
familyCoelophysidae
subfamilyCoelophysinae
genusPodokesaurus
speciesholyokensis

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.

†Podokesaurus holyokensis Talbot 1911
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Diagnosis
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