Ferry above Turners Falls, tracksite: Hettangian - Sinemurian, Massachusetts
collected by D. Marsh

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Climacodichnus corrigatus n. sp.
Hitchcock 1865
"several"
Sphaerapus larvalis
Hitchcock 1865 5 specimens
Aenigmichnus multiformis
Hitchcock 1865 3 specimens
Reptilia
Helcura caudata n. sp. Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1858 3 specimens
Tridentipes elegans (Hitchcock 1841)
Hitchcock 1865 1 specimen
synonym of Steropoides diversus
Tridentipes uncus Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1865 2 specimens
recombined as Steropoides uncus
Reptilia - Batrachopodidae
Anisopus gracilis (Hitchcock 1845)
Hitchcock 1858 8 specimens
original and current combination Batrachopus gracilis
Orthodactylus sp. Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1865 1 specimen
synonym of Batrachopus
Anisopus sp. Hitchcock 1848
Hitchcock 1865 1 specimen
synonym of Batrachopus
Exocampe ornata Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1865 2 specimens
synonym of Batrachopus deweyi
? Tarsodactylus sp. Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1865 1 specimen
Reptilia - Moyenisauropodidae
Anomoepus scambus Hitchcock 1848
Lull 1915
Anomoepus minimus Hitchcock 1862
Hitchcock 1865 2 specimens
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
Anomoepus intermedius n. sp. Hitchcock 1862
Hitchcock 1865 11 specimens
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
Anomoepus curvatus (Hitchcock 1862)
Hitchcock 1865 16 specimens
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
Apatichnus circumagens n. gen., n. sp. Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1865 5 specimens
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
Anomoepus gracillimus (Hitchcock 1844)
Lull 1915
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
Grallator gracillimus (Hitchcock 1844)
Hitchcock 1858 4 specimens
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
Plesiornis quadrupes n. sp. Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1858 9 specimens
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
Reptilia
Plectropterna gracilis Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1865 1 specimen
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Brontozoum giganteum (Hitchcock 1836)
Hitchcock 1858
recombined as Eubrontes giganteus
Brontozoum approximatum Hitchcock 1865
Hitchcock 1865 1 specimen
synonym of Eubrontes giganteus
Brontozoum sillimanium (Hitchcock 1843)
Hitchcock 1865 8 specimens
recombined as Eubrontes sillimani
Amblonyx lyellianus (Hitchcock 1843)
Hitchcock 1858
recombined as Eubrontes lyellii
Brontozoum minusculum (Hitchcock 1837)
Hitchcock 1865 3 specimens
recombined as Eubrontes minusculus
Hyphepus fieldi Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1865 1 specimen
recombined as Eubrontes fieldi
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1865 1 specimen
Brontozoum exsertum Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1865 3 specimens
synonym of Grallator tuberosus
Grallator gracilis n. sp. (Hitchcock 1837)
Hitchcock 1865 7 specimens
synonym of Grallator tuberosus
Grallator tenuis Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1865
Grallator cuneatus Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1865 3 specimens
synonym of Grallator tenuis
Grallator cursorius Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1865 3 specimens
Grallator parallelus (Hitchcock 1837)
Hitchcock 1865 1 specimen
synonym of Grallator cursorius
Reptilia
Selenichnus breviusculus n. sp. Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1858 2 specimens
Apatichnus minor (Hitchcock 1858)
Lull 1915
recombined as Kayentapus minor
Reptilia - Otozoidae
Otozoum moodii Hitchcock 1847
Hitchcock 1858 1 specimen
Reptilia
? Platypterna sp. Hitchcock 1845
Hitchcock 1865 1 specimen
Harpedactylus rectus n. sp. Hitchcock 1848
Hitchcock 1858 1 specimen
recombined as Platypterna recta
Platypterna concamerata (Hitchcock 1848)
Lull 1953
Platypterna varica n. sp. Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1858 15 specimens
synonym of Platypterna concamerata
Antipus bifidus n. sp. Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1858 3 specimens
unclassified
Typopus abnormis n. gen., n. sp. (Hitchcock 1844)
Hitchcock 1858 4 specimens
Hoplichnus poledrus n. sp. Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1858 3 specimens
synonym of Hoplichnus quadrupedans
Ammopus marshi n. gen., n. sp. Lull 1915
Lull 1915
Unisulcus minutus
Hitchcock 1865 2 specimens
synonym of Herpystezoum
Unisulcus intermedius
Hitchcock 1865 4 specimens
synonym of Herpystezoum
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Massachusetts County:Franklin
Coordinates: 42.6° North, 72.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.3° North, 18.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:36 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Hettangian - Sinemurian
Age range of interval:201.40000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Agawam Formation:Portland
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:micaceous,gray,red sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: red and dark gray micaceous sandstone
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression,trace
Degree of concentration:-multiple events
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:many
Disassociated major elements:many
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:D. Marsh
Metadata
Also known as:Lull 5, Turner's Falls
Database number:52998
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-08-30 12:49:33 Last modified:2018-03-23 16:32:24
Access level:the public Released:2005-08-30 12:49:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
52720. E. Hitchcock. 1856. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Additional facts respecting the tracks of the Otozoum moodii on the Liassic sandstone of the Connecticut Valley 1856:228 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

30862ETE C. H. Hitchcock. 1865. Appendix [B]. Descriptive catalogue of the specimens in the Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet of Amherst College. In C. H. Hitchcock (ed.), Supplement to the Ichnology of New England. A Report to the Government of Massachusetts in 1863 43-96 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29531ETE 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 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
30860ETE E. Hitchcock. 1865. Supplement to the ichnology of New England. In C. H. Hitchcock (ed.), Supplement to the Ichnology of New England. A Report to the Government of Massachusetts in 1863 1-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
15230ETE R. S. Lull. 1904. Fossil footprints of the Jura-Trias of North America. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 5(11):461-557 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14628ETE R. S. Lull. 1915. Triassic life of the Connecticut Valley. State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin 24:1-285 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14321ETE R. S. Lull. 1953. Triassic life of the Connecticut Valley (revised). State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin 81:1-336 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
53034 B. S. Lyman. 1894. Some New Red horizons. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 33:192-215 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
60844 R. T. McCrea, D. H. Tanke, L. G. Buckley, M. G. Lockley, J. O. Farlow, L. Xing, N. A. Matthews, C. W. Helm, S. G. Pemberton and B. H. Breithaupt. 2015. Vertebrate ichnopathology: pathologies inferred from dinosaur tracks and trackways from the Mesozoic. Ichnos 22(3–4):235-260 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
18113ETE P. E. Olsen and E. C. Rainforth. 2003. The Early Jurassic ornithischian dinosaurian ichnogenus Anomoepus. In P. M. LeTourneau & P. E. Olsen (ed.), The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America, Volume 2: Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Paleontology 314-368 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]