Reptilia - Saurischia - Grallatoridae

Alternative combinations: Anchisauripus minisculus, Anchisauripus minuscolus, Anchisauripus minusculus, Brontozoum minusculum, Grallator (Anchisauripus) minusculus, Grallator minusculus, Ornithichnites minusculus

Synonyms: Anchisauripus tuberatus Hitchcock 1858, Brontozoum tuberatum Hitchcock 1858, Eubrontes tuberatus Hitchcock 1858, Grallator maximus Lapparent and Montenat 1967, Plesiornis giganteus Hitchcock 1889

Full reference: E. Hitchcock. 1837. Fossil footsteps in sandstone and graywacke. The American Journal of Sciences and Arts 32:174-176

Belongs to Eubrontes according to R. E. Weems 1992

See also Baird 1957, Bessedik et al. 2008, Bessedik et al. 2020, Clark et al. 2005, Courel et al. 1968, Deane 1861, Demathieu 1993, Demathieu 2003, Demathieu et al. 2002, Demathieu and Haubold 1972, Demathieu and Sciau 1992, Fujita et al. 2008, Gand et al. 2005, Gand et al. 2005, Gand et al. 2018, Gand et al. 2000, Gierlinski 1996, Gierlinski and Pienkowski 1999, Haubold 1971, Haubold 1974, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hitchcock 1837, Hitchcock 1858, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898, Hitchcock and Grier 1927, Kuhn 1963, Lapparent and Montenat 1967, Leonardi and Carvalho 2021, Lockley 1986, Lull 1904, Lull 1915, Lull 1917, Lull 1953, Lyman 1894, Michalík et al. 1976, Moreau et al. 2019, Moreau et al. 2012, Moreau et al. 2017, Moreau et al. 2014, Moreau et al. 2018, Moreau et al. 2024, Olsen 1980, Olsen and Galton 1984, Rioult 1978, Sarjeant 1975, Thulborn 1990, Vignaud et al. 1994, Xing et al. 2017, Young 1960 and Zhen et al. 1986

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

Type specimens:

• Eubrontes minusculus: AC 16/1, a footprint. Its type locality is Lily Pond Quarry, Gill, which is in a Hettangian fluvial-lacustrine siltstone/sandstone in the Turners Falls Formation of Massachusetts.
• Eubrontes tuberatus: AC 27/17, a footprint. Its type locality is Lily Pond Quarry, Gill, which is in a Hettangian fluvial-lacustrine siltstone/sandstone in the Turners Falls Formation of Massachusetts.
• Grallator maximus: ULB-04C13_B (plaster cast), a footprint. Its type locality is L'Anse de la République tracksite, F6, which is in a Rhaetian estuary/bay sandstone/claystone in France.
• Plesiornis giganteus: Mount Holyoke College (destroyed), a footprint. Its type locality is The Cove, Wethersfield, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine shale in the Portland Formation of Connecticut.

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.