Alternative combination: Tarsoplectrus angustus
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 Plectropterna according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Hitchcock 1858, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898, Lull 1904, Lull 1917, Lyman 1894 and Lyman 1895
Sister taxa: Plectropterna elegans, Plectropterna gracilis, Plectropterna lineans, Plectropterna minitans
Type specimen: AC 33/39, a footprint. 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.
Distribution:
• Jurassic of United States (2: Massachusetts collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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