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Steropoides ingens

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Ornithichnites ingens was named by Hitchcock (1836). It is considered to be a form taxon. It is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Horse Race Quarry, Gill, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian terrestrial sandstone/shale in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.

It was recombined as Ornithoidichnites ingens by Hitchcock (1841); it was recombined as Steropezoum ingens by Hitchcock (1848); it was recombined as Tridentipes ingens by Hitchcock (1858), Hitchcock (1871), Miller (1879), Quenstedt (1882), Hitchcock (1889), Zittel (1890), Lyman (1894), Lyman (1895) and Hitchcock (1898); it was recombined as Steropoides ingens by Hitchcock (1845), Hay (1902), Lull (1904), Lull (1915), Lull (1917), Hay (1930), Kuhn (1963) and Haubold (1971).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1836Ornithichnites ingens Buckland p. 41
1836Ornithichnites ingens Hitchcock p. 319 fig. 3
1837Ornithichnites ingens Hitchcock p. 175
1841Ornithoidichnites ingens Hitchcock p. 490
1844Ornithoidichnites danae Hitchcock pp. 306-307 fig. 5
1845Sillimanius adamsanus Hitchcock p. 24
1845Steropoides ingens Hitchcock p. 24
1846Ornithichnites ingens Girard p. 15
1848Steropezoum ingens Hitchcock p. 182
1858Tridentipes ingens Hitchcock p. 89
1871Tridentipes ingens Hitchcock p. xxi
1879Tridentipes ingens Miller p. 147
1882Tridentipes ingens Quenstedt p. 132
1889Tridentipes ingens Hitchcock p. 118
1890Tridentipes ingens Zittel p. 768
1894Tridentipes ingens Lyman p. 205
1895Tridentipes ingens Lyman figs. Pl. 610
1898Tridentipes ingens Hitchcock p. 401
1902Steropoides ingens Hay p. 552
1904Steropoides ingens Lull p. 524
1915Steropoides ingens Lull pp. 239-240
1917Steropoides ingens Lull p. 121
1930Steropoides ingens Hay p. 21
1963Steropoides ingens Kuhn p. 97
1971Steropoides ingens Haubold p. 99

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
genusSteropoides
speciesingens()

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.

†Steropoides ingens Hitchcock 1836
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Invalid names: Ornithoidichnites danae Hitchcock 1844 [synonym], Sillimanius adamsanus Hitchcock 1845 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available