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 Plectropterna according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Hay 1902, Hitchcock 1858, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898 and Lyman 1894
Sister taxa: Plectropterna angusta, Plectropterna elegans, Plectropterna lineans, Plectropterna minitans
Type specimen: Its type locality is Roswell Field's Orchard, Gill, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone/shale in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Jurassic of United States (6: Connecticut, Massachusetts collections)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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