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Sillimanius ✝

Description

Sillimanius is an ichnogenus of mammal footprint.


From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sillimanius, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)9516353https://www.gbif.org/species/9516353
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)80633https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=80633
Rankgenus
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Sillimanius
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Sillimanius
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
subclassEureptilia
-RomeriidaGauthier et al. 1988
-Diapsida
-Eosuchia
-NeodiapsidaBenton 1985
-SauriaGauthier 1984
-Archosauromorpha
-CrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
-EucrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-Archosauria
informalAvemetatarsaliaBenton 1999
-OrnithodiraGauthier 1986
-DinosauromorphaBenton 1985
-DinosauriformesNovas 1992
-Dinosauria
genusSillimaniusHitchcock 1845
Scientific NameSillimanius
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Sillimaniusgenusbelongs to Tetradactylidaestated with evidenceHitchcock, 1845
Sillimaniusgenusbelongs to Dinosauriastated with evidenceLull, 1904
Sillimaniusgenusbelongs to Reptiliastated without evidenceLull, 1917
Sillimaniusgenusbelongs to Dinosauriastated without evidenceKuhn, 1958
Sillimaniusgenusbelongs to Reptiliastated without evidenceKuhn, 1963
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)5
First Recorded Appearance201 - 191 Ma
Early Jurassic
Environmentterrestrial (based on Diapsida)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
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
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sillimanius

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Ornithopus adamsanus ✝
species		doubtful (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		1201 Ma
Early Jurassic		201 Ma
Early Jurassic
Ornithopus rectus ✝
species		doubtful (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
Sillimanius adamsanus
species		accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Sillimanius gracilior ✝
species		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		3201 Ma
Early Jurassic		201 Ma
Early Jurassic
Sillimanius rectus
species		accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Sillimanius tetradactylus ✝
species		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		8201 Ma
Early Jurassic		201 Ma
Early Jurassic

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1845Ornithopus Hitchcock
1845Sillimanius Hitchcock p. 24
1848Ornithopus Hitchcock p. 191
1882Ornithopus Quenstedt p. 132
1898Ornithopus Hitchcock p. 401
1904Sillimanius Lull p. 522
1917Sillimanius Lull p. 121
1958Sillimanius Kuhn p. 25
1963Sillimanius Kuhn p. 94

References

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, Geology of Old Hampshire County, Massachusetts Comprising Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden Counties. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey 29, 400-406
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
Kuhn O. (1958) , Die Fährten der vorzeitlichen Amphibien und Reptilien [The Tracks of Prehistoric Amphibians and Reptiles], 1-64
Kuhn O. (1963) Pars 101. Ichnia Tetrapodorum, In F. Westphal (ed.), Fossilium Catalogus. I: Animalia. Ysel Press, Deventer, Netherlands, 1-176
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
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