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
Trisulcus sp. Popofsky 1913
Hitchcock 1889
synonym of Botryopera
unclassified
Bisulcus sp. Hitchcock 1862
Hitchcock 1889
Amphibia
Triaenopus emmonsianus (Hitchcock 1841)
Lull 1904 1 specimen
recombined as Triaenopus emmonsii
later renamed T. leptodactylus
Triaenopus baileyanus (Hitchcock 1841)
Hitchcock 1865 170 specimens
synonym of Triaenopus emmonsii
later renamed T. leptodactylus
Reptilia
Ornithoidichnites tetradactylus (Hitchcock 1836)
recombined as Sillimanius tetradactylus
Ornithopus gallinaceus Hitchcock 1845
Hitchcock 1848 1 specimen
synonym of Sillimanius tetradactylus
Ornithoidichnites gracilior n. sp. Hitchcock 1841
Hitchcock 1841 2 specimens
recombined as Sillimanius gracilior
Ornithoidichnites elegans Hitchcock 1841
Hitchcock 1841
synonym of Steropoides diversus
Sauroidichnites heteroclitus n. sp. Hitchcock 1841
Hitchcock 1841 10 specimens
recombined as Ancyropus heteroclitus
Sauroidichnites jacksoni n. sp. Hitchcock 1841
Hitchcock 1841
synonym of Ancyropus heteroclitus
Reptilia - Batrachopodidae
Exocampe ? ornata Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1865 1 specimen
synonym of Batrachopus deweyi
Comptichnus sp. Hitchcock 1865
Hitchcock 1889
synonym of Batrachopus
n. sp.
Reptilia - Moyenisauropodidae
Anomoepus intermedius Hitchcock 1862
Lull 1953
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
Anomoepus curvatus (Hitchcock 1862)
Hitchcock 1889
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
Corvipes lacertoideus Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1889
recombined as Anomoepus lacertoideus
Reptilia
Plectropterna elegans Hitchcock 1889
Hitchcock 1889
Plectropterna lineans Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1858
Plectropterna gracilis Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1889
Plectropterna minitans (Hitchcock 1837)
Hitchcock 1865 2 specimens
Sauroidichnites minitans Hitchcock 1837
Hitchcock 1841
recombined as Plectropterna minitans
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Grallator tenuis Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1889
Ornithoidichnites tuberosus (Hitchcock 1836)
recombined as Grallator tuberosus
Plesiornis giganteus n. sp. Hitchcock 1889
Hitchcock 1889
synonym of Eubrontes minusculus
Brontozoum sillimanium (Hitchcock 1843)
Hitchcock 1889
recombined as Eubrontes sillimani
Ornithoidichnites cuneatus (Hitchcock 1837)
Hitchcock 1841 1 specimen
synonym of Eubrontes sillimani
Ornithoidichnites giganteus (Hitchcock 1836)
Hitchcock 1841 1 specimen
recombined as Eubrontes giganteus
Brontozoum divaricatum Hitchcock 1865
Hitchcock 1889
synonym of Eubrontes giganteus
Ornithoidichnites expansus Hitchcock 1841
Hitchcock 1841
recombined as Eubrontes expansus
Reptilia
Sauroidichnites longipes n. sp. Hitchcock 1841
Hitchcock 1841
recombined as Plectropus longipes
Plesiornis sp. Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1889
n. sp.
Argozoum disparidigitatum Hitchcock 1848
Hitchcock 1848 1 specimen
synonym of Argoides macrodactylus
Ornithoidichnites minimus (Hitchcock 1836)
recombined as Argoides minimus
Plesiornis aequalipes Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1865 4 specimens
synonym of Argoides minimus
Trihamus elegans Hitchcock 1862
Hitchcock 1889
Trihamus magnus Hitchcock 1889
Hitchcock 1889
Harpedactylus sp. Hitchcock 1845
Hitchcock 1889
synonym of Platypterna
n. sp.
Ornithoidichnites delicatulus n. sp. Hitchcock 1841
Hitchcock 1841 2 specimens
recombined as Platypterna delicatula
Ornithoidichnites deanii n. sp. (Hitchcock 1837)
Hitchcock 1848 6 specimens
recombined as Platypterna deanii
Ornithoidichnites tenuis n. sp. Hitchcock 1837
Hitchcock 1848 6 specimens
recombined as Platypterna tenuis
unclassified
Typopus gracilis n. sp. Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1858 1 specimen
Unisulcus minutus
Hitchcock 1889
synonym of Herpystezoum
Cochlichnus spp.
Hitchcock 1889
two species, unnamed
Acanthichnus cursorius
Hitchcock 1889
Conopsoides larvalis
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
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Agawam Formation:Portland
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
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]
30862ETE 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]
30910ETE 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]
29531ETE 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]
15230ETE 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]
14628ETE 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]
14321ETE 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]
18113ETE 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]