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Anomoepus crassus

Reptilia - Moyenisauropodidae

Taxonomy
Apatichnus crassus was named by Hitchcock (1889). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is Rutgers University 50:4:1, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Vreeland Quarry tracksite, which is in a Hettangian terrestrial horizon in the Towaco Formation of New Jersey.

It was synonymized subjectively with Anomoepus scambus by Olsen and Rainforth (2003); it was recombined as Anomoepus crassus by Lull (1904), Lull (1915), Lull (1917), Hay (1930), Lull (1953), Kuhn (1963), Haubold (1971), Thulborn and Wade (1984), Gierlinski (1991) and Dalman and Weems (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1889Apatichnus crassus Hitchcock pp. 118, 132, 134
1898Apatichnus crassus Hitchcock p. 401
1902Apatichnus crassus Hay p. 540
1904Anomoepus crassus Lull p. 503 fig. 23
1915Anomoepus crassus Lull pp. 212-213 fig. 65
1917Anomoepus crassus Lull p. 118
1930Anomoepus crassus Hay p. 4
1953Anomoepus crassus Lull p. 199 fig. 67
1963Anomoepus crassus Kuhn p. 90
1971Anomoepus crassus Haubold p. 84
1984Anomoepus crassus Thulborn and Wade p. 450
1991Anomoepus crassus Gierlinski p. 141
2013Anomoepus crassus Dalman and Weems p. 106

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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()
—Ornithischia()
—Genasauria
—Cerapoda
—Ornithopoda()
familyMoyenisauropodidae
genusAnomoepus
speciescrassus()

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.

†Anomoepus crassus Hitchcock 1889
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available