Alternative combination: Plectropterna angusta
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 Tarsoplectrus according to R. S. Lull 1904
See also Hitchcock 1858, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898, Lull 1917, Lyman 1894 and Lyman 1895
Sister taxon: Tarsoplectrus elegans
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.
Ecology:
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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