Helcura littoralis Hitchcock 1848 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudinata

Full reference: E. Hitchcock. 1848. An attempt to discriminate and describe the animals that made the fossil footmarks of the United States, and especially of New England. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, new series 3:129-256

Belongs to Helcura according to H. Haubold 1971

See also Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hitchcock 1848, Lull 1904 and Lull 1917

Sister taxa: Helcura anguinea, Helcura caudata, Helcura surgens

Type specimen: AC 26/10, a footprint. Its type locality is below Turners Falls, tracksite, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone/shale in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at below Turners Falls, tracksite

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