Helcura caudata Hitchcock 1858 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudinata

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 Helcura according to H. Haubold 1971

See also Hitchcock 1858, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Lull 1904 and Lyman 1894

Sister taxa: Helcura anguinea, Helcura littoralis, Helcura surgens

Type specimen: Its type locality is Ferry above Turners Falls, tracksite, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Jurassic of United States (3: Massachusetts collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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