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Foxraptor atrox

Mammalia - Paurodontidae

Taxonomy
Foxraptor atrox was named by Bakker and Carpenter (1990) [incorrectly given as UCM 47257 in original description]. Its type specimen is UCM 59089, a mandible (nearly complete right mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Main Breakfast Bench Quarry, which is in a Tithonian deltaic sandstone/mudstone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming. It is the type species of Foxraptor.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1990Foxraptor atrox Bakker and Carpenter pp. 4-7 figs. 6-7
1998Foxraptor atrox Carpenter p. 398
2004Foxraptor atrox Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 380, 391-392

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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
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
superorderDryolestoidea(Butler 1939)
familyPaurodontidae
genusFoxraptor
speciesatrox

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.

†Foxraptor atrox Bakker and Carpenter 1990
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: scansorialuc
Diet: insectivoreuc
Created: 2005-09-06 19:53:51
Modified: 2005-09-07 19:44:02
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Hopson 1973, Luo et al. 2003, Carroll 1988

Age range: Tithonian or 152.10000 to 145.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Tithonian152.1 - 145.0USA (Wyoming) Foxraptor atrox (type locality: 39412)