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Lagunculapes ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4816139	https://www.gbif.org/species/4816139
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	155998	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=155998

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Lagunculapes

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Lagunculapes

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
genus	Lagunculapes	Hitchcock 1858

Scientific Name

Lagunculapes

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Lagunculapes	genus	belongs to Batrachia	stated without evidence	Hitchcock, 1898
Lagunculapes	genus	belongs to Dinosauria	stated with evidence	Lull, 1904
Lagunculapes	genus	belongs to Reptilia	stated without evidence	Lull, 1917
Lagunculapes	genus	belongs to Dinosauria	stated without evidence	Kuhn, 1958

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

201 - 191 Ma
Early Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

201 - 191 Ma
Early Jurassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Diapsida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. Hitchcock. 1858. 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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Lagunculapes latus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1858	Lagunculapes Hitchcock p. 132
1898	Lagunculipes Hitchcock p. 402
1904	Lagunculapes Lull p. 525
1917	Lagunculapes Lull p. 122
1958	Lagunculapes Kuhn p. 24

References

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

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

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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