northeast Deerfield tracksite: Hettangian - Sinemurian, Massachusetts
collected by J. Deane, T. Leonard 1835

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Batrachopodidae
Tarsodactylus expansus n. sp. Hitchcock 1866
Hitchcock 1867 1 specimen
Reptilia - Moyenisauropodidae
Anomoepus major Hitchcock 1858
Deane 1861
Anomoepus minor Hitchcock 1858
Deane 1861
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Ornithoidichnites giganteus (Hitchcock 1836)
recombined as Eubrontes giganteus
unclassified
Hoplichnus equus Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1858 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Massachusetts County:Franklin
Coordinates: 42.6° North, 72.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.3° North, 18.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
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
Geological group:Agawam Formation:Portland
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:micaceous,gray sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:J. Deane, T. Leonard Collection dates:1835
Taxonomic list comments:T. expansus type listed as from "Ferry above Turner's Falls, near Greenfield" in Hitchcock 1866/67, and from Deerfield/Greenfield by Lull 1904. The coincidence of "Greenfield" in both suggests correct placement at this site and not the traditional "Ferry above Turner's Falls" site.
Metadata
Also known as:Greenfield, Lull 10
Database number:91578
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-10-02 11:39:54 Last modified:2020-02-14 15:59:59
Access level:the public Released:2009-10-02 11:39:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
51495. 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 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

57057 J. Deane. 1861. A memoir upon the fossil footprints and other impressions of the Connecticut River sandstone. Ichnographs from the Sandstone of Connecticut River 19-61 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
42221 C. H. Hitchcock. 1867. Description of a new reptilian bird from the Trias of Massachusetts. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 8:301-302 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
71713 C. H. Hitchcock and N. M. Grier. 1927. The Hitchcock Lecture upon ichnology, and the Dartmouth College ichnological collection. The American Midland Naturalist 10(7):161-197 [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]
68226 J. C. Warren. 1854. Remarks on Some Fossil Impressions in the Sandstone Rocks of Connecticut River 1-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]