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Gypsichnites pacensis

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Gypsichnites pacensis was named by Sternberg (1932). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is NMC 8553, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is 2 miles upstream from Gething's mine, Peace River Canyon, which is in an Albian terrestrial sandstone/coal in the Gething Formation of Canada.

It was recombined as Columbosauripus pacensis by Currie and Koppelhus (2015); it was misspelled as Gypsichnites pascensis by Xing et al. (2015), Weems and Bachman (2015) and Leonardi and Carvalho (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1932Gypsichnites pacensis Sternberg pp. 68-70 figs. 6-7, Pl. 4:1
1958Gypsichnites pacensis Kuhn p. 27
1963Gypsichnites pacensis Kuhn p. 106
1970Gypsichnites pacensis Sarjeant p. 277
1971Gypsichnites pacensis Haubold p. 88
1974Gypsichnites peacensis Haubold p. 143
1974Gypsichnites pacensis Langston p. 95
1984Gypsichnites pacensis Thulborn and Wade p. 450
1990Gypsichnites pacensis Thulborn p. 197
2004Gypsichnites pacensis Gangloff et al. p. 306
2005Gypsichnites pacensis Harington et al. p. 125
2015Columbosauripus pacensis Currie and Koppelhus p. 626
2015Gypsichnites pacensis Díaz-Martínez et al. p. 13
2015Gypsichnites pacensis Weems and Bachman p. 214
2015Gypsichnites pascensis Xing et al. p. 460
2021Gypsichnites pacensis Leonardi and Carvalho p. 137

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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()
genusGypsichnites
speciespacensis

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.

†Gypsichnites pacensis Sternberg 1932
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: solitaryo
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: carnivoreo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2004-12-14 12:50:08
Modified: 2004-12-14 14:50:08
Source: o = order
Reference: Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Aptian to the top of the Albian or 125.00000 to 100.50000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aptian125.0 - 113.0USA (Virginia) Gypsichnites pacensis (97942)
Aptian - Albian125.0 - 100.5Canada (British Columbia) Gypsichnites pacensis (126799)
Albian113.0 - 100.5Canada (Alberta) Gypsichnites pascensis (52879)
Albian113.0 - 100.5Canada (British Columbia) Gypsichnites pacensis (type locality: 64386)