Alternative combination: Ornithichnites diversus
Synonyms: Ornithoidichnites elegans Hitchcock 1841, Steropezoum elegans Hitchcock 1841, Steropoides elegans Hitchcock 1841, Tridentipes elegans Hitchcock 1841
Full reference: E. Hitchcock. 1836. Ornithichnology - description of the foot marks of birds, (Ornithichnites) on new Red Sandstone in Massachusetts. The American Journal of Science and Arts 29(2):307-340
Belongs to Steropoides according to H. Haubold 1971
See also Buckland 1836, Harkness 1850, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hitchcock 1836, Hitchcock 1836, Hitchcock 1837, Hitchcock 1841, Hitchcock 1844, Hitchcock 1845, Hitchcock 1848, Hitchcock 1858, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898, Hitchcock and Grier 1927, Kuhn 1963, Lull 1904, Lull 1915, Lull 1917, Lyman 1895 and Miller 1879
Sister taxa: Steropoides divaricatus, Steropoides infelix, Steropoides ingens, Steropoides uncus
Type specimens:
- Steropoides diversus: Its type locality is below Turners Falls, tracksite, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone/shale in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts
- Tridentipes elegans: AC 26/21, a footprint. Its type locality is Dexter Marsh's Quarry, Montague, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.
Distribution:
• Jurassic of United States (9: Connecticut, Massachusetts collections)
Total: 9 collections including 12 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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