Ptilichnus anomalus Hitchcock 1858 (bony fish)

Osteichthyes

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 Ptilichnus according to E. Hitchcock 1858

See also Deane 1861

Sister taxa: Ptilichnus hydrodromus, Ptilichnus pectinatus, Ptilichnus typographus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Lily Pond Quarry, Gill, which is in a Hettangian fluvial-lacustrine siltstone/sandstone in the Turners Falls Formation of Massachusetts

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Lily Pond Quarry, Gill

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