Harpedactylus crassus Hitchcock 1862 (saurischian)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Full reference: E. Hitchcock. 1862. Supplement to the Ichnology of New England. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 6:84-95

Belongs to Harpedactylus according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Hay 1902, Hitchcock 1862, Hitchcock 1865, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898, Lull 1904, Lull 1917 and Lyman 1894

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

Type specimen: AC 47/53, a footprint. Its type locality is Lily Pond Quarry, Gill, which is in a Hettangian fluvial-lacustrine siltstone/sandstone in the Turners Falls Formation of Massachusetts.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Lily Pond Quarry, Gill

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