Apatichnus Hitchcock 1858 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Anomoepodidae

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

Parent taxon: Anomoepodidae according to H. Haubold 1971

See also Gierlinski 1991, Haubold 1969, Haubold 1974, Hitchcock 1898, Kuhn 1958, Kuhn 1963, Lull 1904, Lull 1915, Lull 1917, Lull 1953, Olsen 1986, Romero Molina et al. 2003, Thulborn 2006 and Weems 1987

Sister taxa: Eoanomoepus, Neoanomoepus, Shenmuichnus

Subtaxa: none

Type: Apatichnus circumagens

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Apatichnus in the database

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