Platypterna delicatula Hitchcock 1841 (saurischian)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Alternative combinations: Calopus delicatulus, Ornithoidichnites delicatulus

Full reference: E. Hitchcock. 1841. Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts xii-831

Belongs to Platypterna according to H. Haubold 1971

See also Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hitchcock 1841, Hitchcock 1845, Hitchcock 1848, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898, Lull 1904 and Quenstedt 1882

Sister taxa: Platypterna concamerata, Platypterna deanii, Platypterna digitigrada, Platypterna gracillima, Platypterna lockatong, Platypterna recta, Platypterna tenuis, Harpedactylus gracilior, Harpedactylus crassus, Harpedactylus tenuissimus

Type specimen: Its type locality is The Cove, Wethersfield, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine shale in the Portland Formation of Connecticut

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Jurassic of United States (2: Connecticut, Massachusetts collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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