Eubrontes platypus Hitchcock 1858 (theropod)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Grallatoridae

Alternative combinations: Amblonyx giganteus, Fulicopus giganteus, Grallator (Eubrontes) platypus

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 Eubrontes according to L.-D. Xing et al. 2021

See also Fujita et al. 2008, Gand et al. 2018, Gao 2007, Haubold 1971, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hitchcock 1858, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898, Kuhn 1963, Leonardi 1979, Leonardi 1980, Leonardi 1989, Leonardi and Carvalho 2021, Li et al. 2021, Li and Zhang 2017, Lockley et al. 2013, Lull 1904, Lull 1915, Lull 1917, Lull 1953, Lyman 1894, Olsen and Galton 1984, Sarjeant 1975, Thulborn 1990, Weems 1992, Xing et al. 2009, Xing et al. 2017, Zhen et al. 1986 and Zhen et al. 1989

Sister taxa: Eubrontes (Grallator), Eubrontes euskelosauroides, Eubrontes expansus, Eubrontes fieldi, Eubrontes giganteus, Eubrontes glenrosensis, Eubrontes lyellii, Eubrontes minusculus, Eubrontes monax, Eubrontes nianpanshanensis, Eubrontes nobitai, Eubrontes pareschequier, Eubrontes sillimani, Eubrontes tatricus, Eubrontes veillonensis, Eubrontes xiyangensis, Eubrontes zigongensis, Lufengopus dongi, Megaichnites jizhaoshiensis, Tuojiangpus shuinanensis, Zizhongpus wumaensis, Brontozoum isodactylum, Brontozoum thianschanicum, Gigandipus minor, Gigandipus chiappei, Gigandipus hei, Gigandipus caudatus, Otouphepus declivis, Ichnites pterodactyli, Ornithichnites argenterae, Ornithichnites crassus, Zizhongpus wumanensis

Type specimen: AC 13/4, a footprint. Its type locality is below Turners Falls, tracksite, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone/shale in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Brazil (1 collection)

• Jurassic of China (1), United States (2: Massachusetts)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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