Eubrontes giganteus Hitchcock 1836

Reptilia - Theropoda - Grallatoridae

Alternative combinations: Brontozoum giganteum, Eubrontes (Grallator) giganteus, Eubrontes giganeteus, Grallator (Eubrontes) giganteus, Ornithichnites giganteus, Ornithoidichnites giganteus

Synonyms: Brontozoum approximatum Hitchcock 1865, Brontozoum divaricatum Hitchcock 1865, Eubrontes (Brontozoum) approximatus Hitchcock 1865, Eubrontes approximatus Hitchcock 1865, Eubrontes approximus Hitchcock 1865, Eubrontes divaricantus Hitchcock 1865, Eubrontes divaricatus Hitchcock 1865, Grallator (Eubrontes) divaricatus Hitchcock 1865

Full reference: E. Hitchcock. 1836. Ornithichnology - description of the foot marks of birds, (Ornithichnites) on new Red Sandstone in Massachusetts. The American Journal of Science and Arts 29(2):307-340

Belongs to Eubrontes according to A. R. C. Milner et al. 2009

See also Abbassi and Madanipour 2014, Abrahams et al. 2020, Abrahams et al. 2023, Baird 1957, Beckles 1854, Bessedik et al. 2008, Bessedik et al. 2020, Bock 1952, Bock 1959, Buckland 1836, Deane 1861, Demathieu 2003, Demathieu et al. 2002, Demathieu and Haubold 1974, Ellenberger 1972, Eriksen 1979, Fujita et al. 2008, Gadow 1897, Gadow 1901, Gallagher and Hanczaryk 2006, Gand et al. 2005, Gand et al. 2005, Gand et al. 2007, Gand et al. 2018, Gand et al. 2000, Gierlinski and Ahlberg 1994, Girard 1846, Haubold 1969, Haubold 1971, Haubold 1974, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hitchcock 1836, Hitchcock 1836, Hitchcock 1837, Hitchcock 1837, Hitchcock 1841, Hitchcock 1843, Hitchcock 1845, Hitchcock 1845, Hitchcock 1847, Hitchcock 1848, Hitchcock 1858, Hitchcock 1865, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898, Hitchcock and Grier 1927, Hunt and Lucas 2006, Hunt and Lucas 2006, Hunt and Lucas 2007, Klein and Haubold 2007, Klein and Lucas 2021, Kuhn 1963, Laudermilk 1945, Leonardi and Carvalho 2021, Lockley 1986, Lockley et al. 2011, Lucas et al. 2006, Lull 1904, Lull 1915, Lull 1917, Lull 1924, Lull 1953, Lyman 1894, Marty et al. 2018, Meyer et al. 2021, Milàn and Gierlinski 2004, Miller 1879, Moreau et al. 2019, Moreau et al. 2012, Moreau et al. 2017, Moreau et al. 2014, Moreau et al. 2018, Niedźwiedzki 2011, Olsen 1981, Olsen and Galton 1984, Olsen et al. 1998, Owen 1843, Owen 1861, Pannell 1986, Pienkowski et al. 2015, Quenstedt 1882, Rainforth 2007, Romanovsky 1882, Salisbury et al. 2016, Sarjeant 1975, Thorpe 1929, Thulborn 1990, Thulborn 2006, Warren 1854, Weems 1987, Weems 1992, Weems 2003, Weems 2006, Weishampel 2006, Xing et al. 2021, Xing et al. 2014, Xing et al. 2015, Yang and Yang 1987 and Zittel 1890

Sister taxa: Eubrontes (Grallator), Eubrontes euskelosauroides, Eubrontes expansus, Eubrontes fieldi, Eubrontes glenrosensis, Eubrontes lyellii, Eubrontes minusculus, Eubrontes monax, Eubrontes nianpanshanensis, Eubrontes nobitai, Eubrontes pareschequier, Eubrontes platypus, 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 specimens:

  • Eubrontes giganteus: AC 45/8, 45/1, a footprint. Its type locality is Ashael Lyman's, Northampton tracksite, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian lacustrine - small sandstone/mudstone in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.
  • Eubrontes approximatus: AC 54/10, 32/51, 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.
  • Eubrontes divaricatus: AC 58/1, a footprint. Its type locality is Horse Race Quarry, Gill, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian terrestrial sandstone/shale in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (1 collection)

• Jurassic of Canada (2: Nova Scotia), France (1), India (1), Namibia (1), United States (35: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Utah, Virginia)

• Triassic to Jurassic of France (1)

• Triassic of Sweden (1), United States (3: New Jersey, Pennsylvania)

Total: 46 collections including 62 occurrences

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