Moody's Corner: Hettangian - Sinemurian, Massachusetts
collected by P. Moody & E. Hitchcock 1800-1855
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Ancyropus ? heteroclitus
(Hitchcock 1841)
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Hitchcock 1865 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Ornithoidichnites elegantior
Hitchcock 1841
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| synonym of Steropoides infelix | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Batrachopodidae
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Anisopus deweyanus
(Hitchcock 1843)
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Hitchcock 1865 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
| recombined as Batrachopus deweyi | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Moyenisauropodidae
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Anomoepus scambus
Hitchcock 1848
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Lull 1915 | |||||||||
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Anomoepus minor
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1865 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| synonym of Anomoepus scambus | ||||||||||
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Ornithoidichnites fulicoides
Hitchcock 1843
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Hitchcock 1844 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| synonym of Anomoepus scambus | ||||||||||
| original trackway of 5 prints | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Grallatoridae
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Brontozoum sillimanium
(Hitchcock 1843)
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Hitchcock 1847 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
| recombined as Eubrontes sillimani | ||||||||||
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Ornithoidichnites cuneatus
(Hitchcock 1837)
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| synonym of Eubrontes sillimani | ||||||||||
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Anchisauripus minusculus
(Hitchcock 1837)
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Lull 1915 | |||||||||
| recombined as Eubrontes minusculus | ||||||||||
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Anchisauripus tuberosus
(Hitchcock 1836)
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Lull 1915 | |||||||||
| recombined as Grallator tuberosus | ||||||||||
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Grallator formosus n. sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1865 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| synonym of Grallator tenuis | ||||||||||
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Grallator cursorius n. gen., n. sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1865 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
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Brontozoum parallelum n. sp.
(Hitchcock 1837)
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Hitchcock 1847 | |||||||||
| synonym of Grallator cursorius | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Sauropodidae
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Sauroidichnites barrattii
Hitchcock 1837
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| recombined as Sauropus barrattii | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Apatichnus ? minor
(Hitchcock 1858)
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Lull 1915 | |||||||||
| recombined as Kayentapus minor | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Otozoidae
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Otozoum moodii n. gen., n. sp.
Hitchcock 1847
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Hitchcock 1847 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
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Reptilia
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Ornithoidichnites delicatulus
Hitchcock 1841
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| recombined as Platypterna delicatula | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Massachusetts | County: | Hampshire |
| Coordinates: | 42.3° North, 72.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 24.0° North, 18.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Altitude: | 74 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 1 | ||
| Key time interval: | Hettangian - Sinemurian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 201.40000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | red mudstone |
| Secondary lithology: | coarse,brown,gray,red sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "thin red mudstones interbedded with brown to gray sandstones" | |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
| Geology comments: "marginal, shallow-water lacustrine and small-scale fluvial" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,mold/impression,trace |
| Degree of concentration: | -multiple events |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected) | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | P. Moody & E. Hitchcock | Collection dates: | 1800-1855 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | South Hadley, Moody homestead, Lull 13A, Moody Corner | ||
| Database number: | 52994 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-08-30 12:09:40 | Last modified: | 2021-09-28 14:35:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-30 12:09:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 69420. | E. Hitchcock. 1841. Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts xii-831 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 25607 | ETE | P. M. Galton. 2002. Connecticut Valley footprints from 1802 to now: Moody's Corner, Massachusetts to Dinosaur State Park, Connecticut, USA. DinoPress 6:22-25/-78-91 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Day] |
| 30862 | ETE | C. H. Hitchcock. 1865. Appendix [B]. Descriptive catalogue of the specimens in the Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet of Amherst College. In C. H. Hitchcock (ed.), Supplement to the Ichnology of New England. A Report to the Government of Massachusetts in 1863 43-96 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 23652 | ETE | E. Hitchcock. 1844. Report on ichnolithology, or fossil footmarks, with a description of several new species, and the coprolites of birds, from the valley of Connecticut River, and of a supposed footmark from the valley of Hudson River. The American Journal of Science and Arts 47(2):292-322 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 23649 | ETE | 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 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 30909 | E. Hitchcock. 1848. An attempt to discriminate and describe the animals that made the fossil footmarks of the United States, and especially of New England. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, new series 3:129-256 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 29531 | ETE | E. Hitchcock. 1858. Ichnology of New England. A Report on the Sandstone of the Connecticut Valley, Especially its Fossil Footmarks, Made to the Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts xii-214 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 15230 | ETE | R. S. Lull. 1904. Fossil footprints of the Jura-Trias of North America. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 5(11):461-557 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 14628 | ETE | R. S. Lull. 1915. Triassic life of the Connecticut Valley. State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin 24:1-285 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 14321 | ETE | R. S. Lull. 1953. Triassic life of the Connecticut Valley (revised). State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin 81:1-336 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 77214 | A. Mayor and W. A. S. Sarjeant. 2001. The folklore of footprints in stone: from classical antiquity to the present. Ichnos 8(2):143-163 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 55654 | D. J. Mossman and W. A. S. Sarjeant. 1983. The footprints of extinct animals. Scientific American 248(1):74-85 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 18113 | ETE | P. E. Olsen and E. C. Rainforth. 2003. The Early Jurassic ornithischian dinosaurian ichnogenus Anomoepus. In P. M. LeTourneau & P. E. Olsen (ed.), The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America, Volume 2: Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Paleontology 314-368 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 14770 | ETE | P. E. Olsen, J. B. Smith, and M. G. McDonald. 1998. Type material of the type species of the classic theropod footprint genera Eubrontes, Anchisauripus, and Grallator (Early Jurassic, Hartford and Deerfield Basins, Connecticut and Massachusetts, U.S.A.). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3):586-601 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 78202 | C. M. Sternberg. 1963. Early discoveries of dinosaurs. National Museum of Canada Natural History Papers 21:1-4 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |