Reptilia - Pseudosuchia - Batrachopodidae
Alternative combination: Macropterna divaricans
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 Palamopus according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Deane 1861, Hay 1902, Hitchcock 1848, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898, Lull 1904 and Lyman 1894
Sister taxa: Batrachopus argentinus, Batrachopus bakoenaorum, Batrachopus bellus, Batrachopus deweyi, Batrachopus dispar, Batrachopus gainensis, Batrachopus gracilis, Batrachopus grandis, Batrachopus pilosus, Batrachopus rugosus, Batrachopus supersaltator, Batrachopus tenuis, Batrachopus varians, Shepardia dehiscens, Comptichnus moorosi, Orthodactylus howelli, Sustenodactylus hollandicus, Palamopus anomalus, Chelonoides robusta, Chelonoides wittei
Type specimen: AC 27/3, a footprint
Ecology: planktonic herbivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of United States (4: Connecticut, Massachusetts collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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