The Cove, Wethersfield: Hettangian - Sinemurian, Connecticut
collected by H. Hammer, E. Hitchcock 1835-1870
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Protozoa
- Nassellaria
- Lophophaenidae
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Trisulcus sp.
Popofsky 1913
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Hitchcock 1889 | |||||||||
synonym of Botryopera | ||||||||||
unclassified
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Bisulcus sp.
Hitchcock 1862
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Hitchcock 1889 | |||||||||
Amphibia
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Triaenopus emmonsianus
(Hitchcock 1841)
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Lull 1904 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
recombined as Triaenopus emmonsii | ||||||||||
later renamed T. leptodactylus | ||||||||||
Triaenopus baileyanus
(Hitchcock 1841)
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Hitchcock 1865 | 170 specimens | ||||||||
synonym of Triaenopus emmonsii | ||||||||||
later renamed T. leptodactylus | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Ornithoidichnites tetradactylus
(Hitchcock 1836)
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recombined as Sillimanius tetradactylus | ||||||||||
Ornithopus gallinaceus
Hitchcock 1845
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Hitchcock 1848 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Sillimanius tetradactylus | ||||||||||
Ornithoidichnites gracilior n. sp.
Hitchcock 1841
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Hitchcock 1841 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Sillimanius gracilior | ||||||||||
Ornithoidichnites elegans
Hitchcock 1841
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Hitchcock 1841 | |||||||||
synonym of Steropoides diversus | ||||||||||
Sauroidichnites heteroclitus n. sp.
Hitchcock 1841
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Hitchcock 1841 | 10 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Ancyropus heteroclitus | ||||||||||
Sauroidichnites jacksoni n. sp.
Hitchcock 1841
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Hitchcock 1841 | |||||||||
synonym of Ancyropus heteroclitus | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Batrachopodidae
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Exocampe ? ornata
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1865 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Batrachopus deweyi | ||||||||||
Comptichnus sp.
Hitchcock 1865
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Hitchcock 1889 | |||||||||
synonym of Batrachopus | ||||||||||
n. sp. | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Moyenisauropodidae
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Anomoepus intermedius
Hitchcock 1862
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Lull 1953 | |||||||||
synonym of Anomoepus scambus | ||||||||||
Anomoepus curvatus
(Hitchcock 1862)
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Hitchcock 1889 | |||||||||
synonym of Anomoepus scambus | ||||||||||
Corvipes lacertoideus
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1889 | |||||||||
recombined as Anomoepus lacertoideus | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Plectropterna elegans
Hitchcock 1889
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Hitchcock 1889 | |||||||||
Plectropterna lineans
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1858 | |||||||||
Plectropterna gracilis
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1889 | |||||||||
Plectropterna minitans
(Hitchcock 1837)
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Hitchcock 1865 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Sauroidichnites minitans
Hitchcock 1837
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Hitchcock 1841 | |||||||||
recombined as Plectropterna minitans | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Grallatoridae
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Grallator tenuis
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1889 | |||||||||
Ornithoidichnites tuberosus
(Hitchcock 1836)
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recombined as Grallator tuberosus | ||||||||||
Plesiornis giganteus n. sp.
Hitchcock 1889
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Hitchcock 1889 | |||||||||
synonym of Eubrontes minusculus | ||||||||||
Brontozoum sillimanium
(Hitchcock 1843)
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Hitchcock 1889 | |||||||||
recombined as Eubrontes sillimani | ||||||||||
Ornithoidichnites cuneatus
(Hitchcock 1837)
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Hitchcock 1841 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Eubrontes sillimani | ||||||||||
Ornithoidichnites giganteus
(Hitchcock 1836)
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Hitchcock 1841 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
recombined as Eubrontes giganteus | ||||||||||
Brontozoum divaricatum
Hitchcock 1865
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Hitchcock 1889 | |||||||||
synonym of Eubrontes giganteus | ||||||||||
Ornithoidichnites expansus
Hitchcock 1841
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Hitchcock 1841 | |||||||||
recombined as Eubrontes expansus | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Sauroidichnites longipes n. sp.
Hitchcock 1841
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Hitchcock 1841 | |||||||||
recombined as Plectropus longipes | ||||||||||
Plesiornis sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1889 | |||||||||
n. sp. | ||||||||||
Argozoum disparidigitatum
Hitchcock 1848
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Hitchcock 1848 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Argoides macrodactylus | ||||||||||
Ornithoidichnites minimus
(Hitchcock 1836)
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recombined as Argoides minimus | ||||||||||
Plesiornis aequalipes
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1865 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
synonym of Argoides minimus | ||||||||||
Trihamus elegans
Hitchcock 1862
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Hitchcock 1889 | |||||||||
Trihamus magnus
Hitchcock 1889
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Hitchcock 1889 | |||||||||
Harpedactylus sp.
Hitchcock 1845
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Hitchcock 1889 | |||||||||
synonym of Platypterna | ||||||||||
n. sp. | ||||||||||
Ornithoidichnites delicatulus n. sp.
Hitchcock 1841
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Hitchcock 1841 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Platypterna delicatula | ||||||||||
Ornithoidichnites deanii n. sp.
(Hitchcock 1837)
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Hitchcock 1848 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Platypterna deanii | ||||||||||
Ornithoidichnites tenuis n. sp.
Hitchcock 1837
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Hitchcock 1848 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Platypterna tenuis | ||||||||||
unclassified
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Typopus gracilis n. sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1858 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Unisulcus minutus
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Hitchcock 1889 | |||||||||
synonym of Herpystezoum | ||||||||||
Cochlichnus spp.
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Hitchcock 1889 | |||||||||
two species, unnamed | ||||||||||
Acanthichnus cursorius
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Hitchcock 1889 | |||||||||
Conopsoides larvalis
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Hitchcock 1865 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Connecticut | County: | Middlesex |
Coordinates: | 41.7° North, 72.7° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 23.4° North, 18.6° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Altitude: | 0 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: | 201.30000 - 190.80000 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | brown,red "shale" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
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: | many |
Disassociated major elements: | many |
Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
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: | H. Hammer, E. Hitchcock | Collection dates: | 1835-1870s |
Collection method comments: originally discovered by Mr. Henry Hanmer, a junior at Amherst College. Visited by Perry in the 1930s. |
Metadata
Also known as: | Lull 33 | ||
Database number: | 53000 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-08-30 13:03:52 | Last modified: | 2019-07-15 16:17:33 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-30 13:03:52 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
23654. | ETE | E. Hitchcock. 1837. Ornithichnites in Connecticut. The American Journal of Science and Arts 31:174-175 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
55023 | C. B. Adams. 1846. Notice of a small ornithichnite. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 2 2:215-216 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
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] |
30910 | ETE | C. H. Hitchcock. 1889. Recent progress in ichnology. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 24(8):117-127 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
69420 | E. Hitchcock. 1841. Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts xii-831 [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] |
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] |
52553 | K. P. Perry. 1937. Dinosaur tracks in Connecticut. Foot prints in the sands of time. Rocks and Minerals 12:74-75 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |