†Tarsodactylus Hitchcock 1858 (aetosaur)
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Reptilia - Pseudosuchia - Batrachopodidae
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
Parent taxon: Batrachopodidae according to H. Haubold 1971
See also Haubold 1969, Haubold 1974, Hitchcock 1898, Kuhn 1958, Lull 1904, Lull 1917, Olsen 1986 and Romero Molina et al. 2003
Sister taxa: Angolaichnus, Batrachopus, Rigalites
Subtaxa: Tarsodactylus caudatus Tarsodactylus expansus
Ecology: 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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