Tarsodactylus caudatus Hitchcock 1858 (aetosaur)

Reptilia - Pseudosuchia - Batrachopodidae

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 Tarsodactylus according to H. Haubold 1971

See also Baird 1954, Deane 1861, Haubold 1974, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hitchcock 1858, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898, Lull 1904, Lull 1917, Lyman 1894 and Lyman 1895

Sister taxon: Tarsodactylus expansus

Type specimen: AC 42/5, 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: herbivore

Distribution: found only at Lily Pond Quarry, Gill

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