Alternative combination: Harpedactylus concameratus
Synonym: Platypterna varica Hitchcock 1858
Full reference: E. Hitchcock. 1848. 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
Belongs to Platypterna according to H. Haubold 1971
See also Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hitchcock 1848, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898, Lull 1904, Lull 1917 and Lyman 1894
Sister taxa: Platypterna deanii, Platypterna delicatula, Platypterna digitigrada, Platypterna gracillima, Platypterna lockatong, Platypterna recta, Platypterna tenuis, Harpedactylus crassus, Harpedactylus gracilior, Harpedactylus tenuissimus
Type specimens:
- Platypterna concamerata: no. 180, a footprint. Its type locality is below Turners Falls, tracksite, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone/shale in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.
- Platypterna varica: Its type locality is Ferry above Turners Falls, tracksite, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.
Distribution:
• Jurassic of United States (6: Massachusetts collections)
Total: 6 collections including 7 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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