Reptilia - Saurischia - Otozoidae
Alternative combinations: Brontozoum moodii, Otozoum modii, Otozoum moodyi
Full reference: E. Hitchcock. 1847. Description of two new species of fossil footmarks found in Massachusetts and Connecticut, or, of the animals that made them. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 2 4(10):46-57
Belongs to Otozoum according to M. G. Lockley et al. 2006
See also Deane 1861, Gand et al. 2000, Haubold 1969, Haubold 1971, Haubold 1974, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hitchcock 1847, Hitchcock 1848, Hitchcock 1856, Hitchcock 1856, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898, Hitchcock and Grier 1927, Hunt and Lucas 2006, Irmis 2005, Kuhn 1963, Lull 1904, Lull 1915, Lull 1917, Lull 1924, Lull 1953, Lyman 1894, Lyman 1895, Miller 1879, Quenstedt 1882, Rainforth 2000, Rainforth 2003, Sarjeant 1970, Schmidt 1959, Thulborn 1990, Thulborn 2006, Warren 1854 and Weems 2006
Sister taxa: Otozoum caudatum, Otozoum grandcombensis, Otozoum minus
Type specimen: AC 4/1a (AC old no. 234), a footprint. Its type locality is Moody's Corner, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine mudstone/sandstone in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Canada (2: Nova Scotia collections), Namibia (1), United States (4: Connecticut, Massachusetts)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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