Hyphepus fieldi was named by Hitchcock (1858). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is AC 1/3, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Lily Pond Quarry, Gill, which is in a Hettangian fluvial-lacustrine siltstone/sandstone in the Turners Falls Formation of Massachusetts.

It was recombined as Eubrontes fieldi by Rainforth (2007).