Reptilia - Ornithischia - Moyenisauropodidae
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 Anomoepus according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Deane 1861, Eyerman 1886, Gierlinski 1996, Hadri et al. 2007, Hitchcock 1858, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898, Lull 1904, Lull 1917 and Lyman 1894
Sister taxa: Anomoepus crassus, Anomoepus culbertsonii, Anomoepus fringilla, Anomoepus gallinuloides, Anomoepus giganteus, Anomoepus lacertoideus, Anomoepus minutus, Anomoepus moabensis, Anomoepus moghrebensis, Anomoepus palmipes, Anomoepus pienkovskii, Anomoepus ranivorus, Anomoepus scambus, Anomoepus shingi, Anomoepus turda, Moyenisauropus karaszevskii, Shensipus xiaoliheensis, Shensipus tungchuanensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Roswell Field's Orchard, Gill, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone/shale in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of United States (3: Massachusetts collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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