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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Sillimanius : Sillimanius tetradactylus |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Sillimanius : Sillimanius tetradactylus |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Generic Name | Sillimanius |
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| Scientific Name | Sillimanius tetradactylus (Hitchcock, 1836) |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Sillimanius tetradactylus | species | belongs to Ornithichnites | stated without evidence | Hitchcock, 1836 | | Sillimanius tetradactylus | species | belongs to Ornithoidichnites | stated without evidence | Hitchcock, 1837 | | Sillimanius tetradactylus | species | belongs to Ornithoidichnites | stated with evidence | Hitchcock, 1841 | | Sillimanius tetradactylus | species | belongs to Ornithoidichnites | stated without evidence | Hitchcock, 1844 | | Sillimanius tetradactylus | species | belongs to Sillimanius | stated with evidence | Hitchcock, 1845 | | Sillimanius tetradactylus | species | subjective synonym of Ornithopus gallinaceus | stated with evidence | Hitchcock, 1848 | | Sillimanius tetradactylus | species | belongs to Ornithichnites | stated without evidence | Miller, 1879 | | Sillimanius tetradactylus | species | belongs to Sillimanius | stated without evidence | Hay, 1902 | | Sillimanius tetradactylus | species | belongs to Sillimanius | stated with evidence | Lull, 1904 | | Sillimanius tetradactylus | species | belongs to Sillimanius | stated without evidence | Lull, 1917 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 201 - 191 Ma
Early Jurassic |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 201 - 191 Ma
Early Jurassic |
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| Environment | terrestrial (based on Diapsida) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes) |
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| Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | E. Hitchcock. 1836. Ornithichnology - description of the foot marks of birds, (Ornithichnites) on new Red Sandstone in Massachusetts. The American Journal of Science and Arts 29(2):307-340 |
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| Hitchcock E. Ornithichnology - description of the foot marks of birds, (Ornithichnites) on new Red Sandstone in Massachusetts, The American Journal of Science and Arts 29 2, 307-340 |
| Hitchcock E. Ornithichnites in Connecticut, The American Journal of Science and Arts 31, 174-175 |
| Hitchcock E. Fossil footsteps in sandstone and graywacke, The American Journal of Sciences and Arts 32, 174-176 |
| Hitchcock E. , Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts, xii-831 |
| Hitchcock E. Report on ichnolithology, or fossil footmarks, with a description of several new species, and the coprolites of birds, from the valley of Connecticut River, and of a supposed footmark from the valley of Hudson River, The American Journal of Science and Arts 47 2, 292-322 |
| Hitchcock E. An attempt to name, classify, and describe, the animals that made the fossil footmarks of New England, Sixth Annual Meeeting of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, New Haven, CT. Abstract and Proceedings, 23-25 |
| Hitchcock E. An attempt to discriminate and describe the animals that made the fossil footmarks of the United States, and especially of New England, Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, new series 3, 129-256 |
| Hitchcock C. H. Recent progress in ichnology, Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 24 8, 117-127 |
| Hitchcock C. H. Recent progress in ichnology, Geology of Old Hampshire County, Massachusetts Comprising Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden Counties. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey 29, 400-406 |
| Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868 |
| Lull R. S. (1904) Fossil footprints of the Jura-Trias of North America, Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 5 11, 461-557 |
| Lull R. S. (1915) Triassic life of the Connecticut Valley, State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin 24, 1-285 |
| Kuhn O. (1963) Pars 101. Ichnia Tetrapodorum, In F. Westphal (ed.), Fossilium Catalogus. I: Animalia. Ysel Press, Deventer, Netherlands, 1-176 |
| E. Hitchcock (1836) Ornithichnology - description of the foot marks of birds, (Ornithichnites) on new Red Sandstone in Massachusetts: The American Journal of Science and Arts 2: 307--340 - via Catalogue of Life |
| R. S. Lull (1904) Fossil footprints of the Jura-Trias of North America: Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 11: 461--557 - via Catalogue of Life |
| R. S. Lull (1915) Triassic life of the Connecticut Valley: State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin: 1--285 - via Catalogue of Life |
Sillimanius tetradactylus ✝
