Eubrontes sillimani Hitchcock 1843

Reptilia - Theropoda - Grallatoridae

Alternative combinations: Anchisauripus (Grallator) sillimani, Anchisauripus sillimani, Brontozoum sillimani, Brontozoum sillimanium, Grallator (Anchisauripus) sillimani, Grallator sillimani, Ornithoidichnites sillimani, Ornithoidichnites sillimanii

Synonyms: Anchisauripus (Otouphepus) minor Lull 1915, Anchisauripus dananus Hitchcock 1845, Anchisauripus minor Lull 1915, Eubrontes dananus Hitchcock 1845, Ornithichnites cuneatus Hitchcock 1837, Ornithoidichnites cuneatus Hitchcock 1837, Otouphebus minor Lull 1915, Otouphepus minor Lull 1915

Full reference: E. Hitchcock. 1843. Description of five new specie of fossil footmarks, from the red sandstone of the valley of the Connecticut River. Reports of the First, Second, and Third Meetings of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists 1843:254-264

Belongs to Eubrontes according to E. C. Rainforth 2007

See also Anonymous 1937, Anonymous 1937, Baird 1954, Baird 1957, Bock 1952, Cushman 1904, Deane 1861, Demathieu 1970, Demathieu and Haubold 1974, Ellenberger 1970, Ellenberger 1972, Gallagher and Hanczaryk 2006, Gand et al. 2000, Haubold 1969, Haubold 1971, Haubold 1974, Hay 1902, Hay 1910, Hay 1930, Hitchcock 1837, Hitchcock 1841, Hitchcock 1843, Hitchcock 1844, Hitchcock 1845, Hitchcock 1847, Hitchcock 1848, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898, Hitchcock and Grier 1927, Hunt and Lucas 2006, Hunt and Lucas 2007, Klein and Lucas 2021, Kuhn 1963, Lull 1904, Lull 1915, Lull 1917, Lull 1953, Lyman 1894, Miller 1879, Nelson 1965, Niedźwiedzki 2011, Olsen 1981, Olsen and Galton 1984, Olsen et al. 1998, Quenstedt 1882, Thulborn 1990, Thulborn and Wade 1984, Warren 1854, Weems 1992, Weems 2006 and Xing et al. 2014

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 platypus, 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 sillimani: AC 9/14, a footprint. Its type locality is quarry west of Middletown, tracksite, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone/shale in the Portland Formation of Connecticut.
  • Anchisauripus dananus: AC 9/14, a footprint. Its type locality is quarry west of Middletown, tracksite, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone/shale in the Portland Formation of Connecticut.
  • Ornithichnites cuneatus: Its type locality is Dickinson's Quarry, South Hadley, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.
  • Otouphepus minor: YPM 2059, 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.

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Canada (5: Nova Scotia collections), Lesotho (1), United States (21: Connecticut, Massachusetts)

• Triassic of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), United States (10: New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia)

Total: 38 collections including 46 occurrences

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