Steropoides infelix Hay 1902 (reptile)

Reptilia

Synonyms: Ornithoidichnites elegantior Hitchcock 1841, Steropezoum elegantius Hitchcock 1841, Steropoides elegantior Hitchcock 1841, Tridentipes elegantior Hitchcock 1841

Full reference: O. P. Hay. 1902. Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179:1-868

Belongs to Steropoides according to H. Haubold 1971

See also Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hitchcock 1841, Hitchcock 1845, Hitchcock 1848, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1898, Lull 1904 and Lull 1917

Sister taxa: Steropoides divaricatus, Steropoides diversus, Steropoides ingens, Steropoides uncus

Type specimens:

  • Steropoides infelix: AC 19/9, 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.
  • Tridentipes elegantior:

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Jurassic of United States (5: Connecticut, Massachusetts collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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