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Anchisauripus australis

Reptilia - Grallatoridae

Taxonomy
Anchisauripus australis was named by Lull (1942). Its type specimen is AMNH 1807-1808, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Sierra de las Quijadas tracksite, which is in a Neocomian terrestrial sandstone in the Los Jumes Formation of Argentina.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Baird (1957).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1942Anchisauripus australis Lull p. 424 figs. Pl. 1:3
1958Anchisauripus australis Kuhn p. 22
1963Anchisauripus australis Kuhn p. 80
1971Anchisauripus australis Haubold p. 65
1976Anchisauripus australis Courel and Demathieu p. 209
1978Anchisauripus australis Bonaparte p. 493
1981Anchisauripus australis Leonardi p. 934
1989Anchisauripus australis Leonardi p. 167

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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
genusAnchisauripus
speciesaustralis

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
No diagnoses are available