Full reference: 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 xii-214
Belongs to Platypterna according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Hay 1902, Hitchcock 1858, Lull 1904 and Lyman 1894
Sister taxa: Platypterna concamerata, Platypterna deanii, Platypterna delicatula, Platypterna digitigrada, Platypterna lockatong, Platypterna recta, Platypterna tenuis, Harpedactylus tenuissimus, Harpedactylus gracilior, Harpedactylus crassus
Type specimen: 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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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