Anomoepus crassus Hitchcock 1889 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Moyenisauropodidae

Alternative combination: Apatichnus crassus

Full reference: C. H. Hitchcock. 1889. Recent progress in ichnology. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 24(8):117-127

Belongs to Anomoepus according to S. G. Dalman and R. E. Weems 2013

See also Gierlinski 1991, Haubold 1971, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898, Kuhn 1963, Lull 1904, Lull 1915, Lull 1917, Lull 1953, Olsen and Rainforth 2003 and Thulborn and Wade 1984

Sister taxa: Anomoepus culbertsonii, Anomoepus fringilla, Anomoepus gallinuloides, Anomoepus giganteus, Anomoepus lacertoideus, Anomoepus major, Anomoepus minutus, Anomoepus moabensis, Anomoepus moghrebensis, Anomoepus palmipes, Anomoepus pienkovskii, Anomoepus ranivorus, Anomoepus scambus, Anomoepus shingi, Anomoepus turda, Moyenisauropus karaszevskii, Shensipus xiaoliheensis, Shensipus tungchuanensis

Type specimen: Rutgers University 50:4:1, a footprint. Its type locality is Vreeland Quarry tracksite, which is in a Hettangian terrestrial horizon in the Towaco Formation of New Jersey.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of United States (3: Massachusetts, New Jersey collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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