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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : Batrachopus : Batrachopus gracilis |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Batrachopodidae : Batrachopus : Batrachopus gracilis |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Generic Name | Batrachopus |
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| Scientific Name | Batrachopus gracilis (Hitchcock, 1845) |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Batrachopus gracilis | species | belongs to Batrachopus | stated with evidence | Hitchcock, 1845 | | Batrachopus gracilis | species | belongs to Anisopus | stated with evidence | Hitchcock, 1848 | | Batrachopus gracilis | species | belongs to Anisopus | stated without evidence | Deane, 1861 | | Batrachopus gracilis | species | belongs to Anisichnus | stated without evidence | Hitchcock, 1871 | | Batrachopus gracilis | species | belongs to Anisopus | stated without evidence | Lyman, 1894 | | Batrachopus gracilis | species | belongs to Anisichnus | stated without evidence | Hitchcock, 1898 | | Batrachopus gracilis | species | belongs to Batrachopus | stated without evidence | Hay, 1902 | | Batrachopus gracilis | species | belongs to Batrachopus | stated with evidence | Lull, 1915 | | Batrachopus gracilis | species | belongs to Batrachopus | stated without evidence | Lull, 1917 | | Batrachopus gracilis | species | subjective synonym of Batrachopus deweyi | stated with evidence | Olsen and Padian, 1986 | | Batrachopus gracilis | species | belongs to Batrachopus | stated with evidence | Rainforth, 2007 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 237 - 209 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 201 - 174 Ma
Jurassic |
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| Environment | terrestrial (based on Diapsida) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes) |
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| Diet | herbivore (based on Aetosauria) |
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| Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | E. Hitchcock. 1845. 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 |
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| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1845 | Batrachopus gracilis Hitchcock p. 25 figs. Pl. 16:3-4 |
| 1848 | Anisopus gracilis Hitchcock p. 228 figs. Pl. 16:3-4 |
| 1858 | Shepardia palmipes Hitchcock |
| 1858 | Anisopus gracilis Hitchcock p. 61 |
| 1861 | Anisopus gracilis Deane p. 46 |
| 1862 | Anisopus gracilior Hitchcock p. 86 |
| 1865 | Anisopus gracilior Hitchcock p. 6 |
| 1871 | Anisichnus gracilior Hitchcock p. xxi |
| 1871 | Anisichnus gracilis Hitchcock p. xxi |
| 1871 | Shepardia palmipes Hitchcock p. xxi |
| 1889 | Anisichnus gracilior Hitchcock p. 119 |
| 1889 | Anisichnus gracilis Hitchcock p. 119 |
| 1889 | Shepardia palmipes Hitchcock p. 119 |
| 1894 | Anisopus gracilior Lyman p. 205 |
| 1894 | Anisopus gracilis Lyman p. 205 |
| 1894 | Shepardia palmipes Lyman p. 206 |
| 1898 | Anisichnus gracilior Hitchcock p. 402 |
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1898 | Anisichnus gracilis Hitchcock p. 402 |
| 1898 | Shepardia palmipes Hitchcock p. 402 |
| 1902 | Batrachopus gracilior Hay p. 541 |
| 1902 | Batrachopus gracilis Hay p. 541 |
| 1902 | Shepardia palmipes Hay p. 551 |
| 1904 | Shepardia palmipes Lull p. 538 |
| 1915 | Batrachopus gracilior Lull pp. 177-178 |
| 1915 | Batrachopus gracilis Lull p. 177 |
| 1917 | Batrachopus gracilior Lull p. 113 |
| 1917 | Batrachopus gracilis Lull p. 113 |
| 1917 | Shepardia palmipes Lull p. 126 |
| 1929 | Shepardia palmipes Thorpe p. 299 |
| 1963 | Batrachopus gracilior Kuhn p. 66 |
| 1963 | Batrachopus gracilis Kuhn p. 66 |
| 1969 | Shepardia palmipes Haubold p. 98 fig. 7 |
| 1971 | Batrachopus (Anisopus) gracilior Haubold p. 61 |
| 2007 | Batrachopus gracilis Rainforth p. 54 |
| 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 E. , Ichnology of New England. A Report on the Sandstone of the Connecticut Valley, Especially its Fossil Footmarks, Made to the Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, xii-214 |
| Deane J. A memoir upon the fossil footprints and other impressions of the Connecticut River sandstone, Ichnographs from the Sandstone of Connecticut River, 19-61 |
| Hitchcock E. Supplement to the Ichnology of New England, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 6, 84-95 |
| Hitchcock E. Supplement to the ichnology of New England, Supplement to the Ichnology of New England. A Report to the Government of Massachusetts in 1863, 1-37 |
| Hitchcock C. H. Recent progress in ichnology, Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 24 8, 117-127 |
| Lyman B. S. Some New Red horizons, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 33, 192-215 |
| 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 |
| Thorpe M. R. (1929) A new Triassic fossil field, The American Journal of Science, series 5 18 106, 277-300 |
| Kuhn O. (1963) Pars 101. Ichnia Tetrapodorum, In F. Westphal (ed.), Fossilium Catalogus. I: Animalia. Ysel Press, Deventer, Netherlands, 1-176 |
| Haubold H. (1969) Die Evolution der Archosaurier in der Trias aus der Sicht ihrer Fährten [The evolution of archosaurs in the Triassic from the perspective of their tracks], Hercynia 6 1, 90-106 |
| Haubold H. (1971) , Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie [Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology]. Part 18. Ichnia Amphibiorum et Reptiliorum Fossilium. Gistav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1-124 |
| Rainforth E. C. (2007) Ichnotaxonomic updates from the Newark Supergroup, Contributions to the Paleontology of New Jersey (II). XXIV Annual Conference and Field Trip. Geological Association of New Jersey, Field Guide and Proceedings, 49-59 |
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