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Apulosauripus federicianus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Apulosauripus federicianus was named by Nicosia et al. (1999). Its type specimen is ACDL 99/3, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Cava De Lucia, Altamura, which is in a Santonian offshore shelf sandstone in the Calcare de Altamura Formation of Italy.

It was corrected as Apulosauripus fredericianus by Dalla Vecchia (2009); it was misspelled as Apulosauripus fredericianus by Dalla Vecchia (2014), Díaz-Martínez et al. (2015) and Carrano (2025).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1999Apulosauripus federicianus Nicosia et al. p. 238 figs. 1-7, Pl. 1
2006Apulosauripus fredericianus Dalla Vecchia p. 49
2006Apulosauripus fredericianus Delete
2009Apulosauripus fredericianus Dalla Vecchia p. 14
2014Apulosauripus fredericianus Dalla Vecchia p. 269
2015Apulosauripus federicianus Díaz-Martínez et al. p. 11
2025Apulosauripus fredericianus Carrano

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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()
Ornithischia()
genusApulosauripus
speciesfedericianus

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.

Apulosauripus federicianus Nicosia et al. 1999
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available