below Turners Falls, tracksite: Hettangian - Sinemurian, Massachusetts
collected by D. Marsh, J. Deane & E. Hitchcock 1835
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Saltator bipedatus
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Hitchcock 1865 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
Hoplichnus quadrupedans n. sp.
Hitchcock 1848
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Hitchcock 1848 | |||||||||
Toxichnus inaequalis n. gen., n. sp.
Hitchcock 1865
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Hitchcock 1865 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Amphibia
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Triaenopus leptodactylus
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1865 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Reptilia
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Sillimanius tetradactylus
(Hitchcock 1836)
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Lull 1915 | |||||||||
Sillimanius gracilior
(Hitchcock 1841)
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Lull 1915 | |||||||||
Ornithopus gracilior
(Hitchcock 1841)
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Hitchcock 1865 | 24 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Sillimanius gracilior | ||||||||||
Steropoides uncus
(Hitchcock 1858)
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Lull 1915 | |||||||||
Steropoides infelix n. sp.
Hay 1902
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Lull 1904 | |||||||||
Ornithichnites diversus n. sp.
Hitchcock 1836
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recombined as Steropoides diversus | ||||||||||
Cunichnoides marsupialoideus n. gen., n. sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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Lull 1953 | |||||||||
Helcura anguinea
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1858 | 19 specimens | ||||||||
Helcura littoralis n. sp.
Hitchcock 1848
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Lull 1904 | |||||||||
Helcura surgens
Hitchcock 1858
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Lull 1915 | |||||||||
Ancyropus heteroclitus
(Hitchcock 1841)
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Hitchcock 1865 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Amblypus dextratus n. gen., n. sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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Lull 1904 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Batrachopodidae
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Sauroidichnites deweyi n. sp.
Hitchcock 1843
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Hitchcock 1843 | |||||||||
recombined as Batrachopus deweyi | ||||||||||
Palamopus rogersi
(Hitchcock 1843)
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Lull 1915 | |||||||||
synonym of Batrachopus deweyi | ||||||||||
Macropterna vulgaris
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1858 | |||||||||
synonym of Batrachopus deweyi | ||||||||||
Exocampe ornata n. sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1858 | 12 specimens | ||||||||
synonym of Batrachopus deweyi | ||||||||||
Exocampe ? ornata
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1865 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
synonym of Batrachopus deweyi | ||||||||||
Exocampe arcta
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1858 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
synonym of Batrachopus deweyi | ||||||||||
Palamopus gracilipes n. sp.
(Hitchcock 1858)
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Lull 1915 | |||||||||
synonym of Batrachopus deweyi | ||||||||||
Palamopus palmatus n. gen., n. sp.
Hitchcock 1845
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Lull 1915 | |||||||||
synonym of Batrachopus deweyi | ||||||||||
Macropterna divaricans
Hitchcock 1848
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Hitchcock 1858 | |||||||||
recombined as Palamopus divaricans | ||||||||||
Macropterna vuigaris
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Hitchcock 1865 | 25 specimens | ||||||||
synonym of Batrachopus | ||||||||||
Anisopus gracilis
(Hitchcock 1845)
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Hitchcock 1858 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
original and current combination Batrachopus gracilis | ||||||||||
Shepardia palmipes n. gen., n. sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1858 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Batrachopus gracilis | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Xiphopeza triplex n. gen., n. sp.
Hitchcock 1848
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Hitchcock 1858 | 18 specimens | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Moyenisauropodidae
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Anomoepus scambus n. sp.
Hitchcock 1848
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Hitchcock 1848 | |||||||||
Ornithoidichnites fulicoides
Hitchcock 1843
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Hitchcock 1844 | |||||||||
synonym of Anomoepus scambus | ||||||||||
Ornithoidichnites gracillimus n. sp.
Hitchcock 1844
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Hitchcock 1843 | |||||||||
synonym of Anomoepus scambus | ||||||||||
Anomoepus minor n. sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1858 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Anomoepus scambus | ||||||||||
Corvipes lacertoideus
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1858 | |||||||||
recombined as Anomoepus lacertoideus | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Lagunculapes latus n. gen., n. sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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Lull 1904 | |||||||||
Plectropterna sp.
Hitchcock 1845
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Hitchcock 1865 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
cf. Plectropterna gracilis
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1865 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
"n. gen.?" | ||||||||||
Plectropterna minitans
(Hitchcock 1837)
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Hitchcock 1865 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Grallatoridae
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Grallator tenuis n. sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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Lull 1904 | |||||||||
Anchisauripus hitchcocki
Lull 1904
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Lull 1953 | |||||||||
synonym of Grallator tenuis | ||||||||||
Grallator cursorius
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1858 | |||||||||
Anchisauripus parallelus
(Hitchcock 1837)
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Lull 1915 | |||||||||
synonym of Grallator cursorius | ||||||||||
Brontozoum validum
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1865 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
synonym of Grallator tuberosus | ||||||||||
Grallator gracilis
(Hitchcock 1837)
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Lull 1904 | |||||||||
synonym of Grallator tuberosus | ||||||||||
Brontozoum exsertum
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1858 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
synonym of Grallator tuberosus | ||||||||||
Brontozoum isodactylum
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1858 | |||||||||
synonym of Eubrontes | ||||||||||
Anchisauripus minusculus
(Hitchcock 1837)
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Lull 1915 | |||||||||
recombined as Eubrontes minusculus | ||||||||||
Brontozoum sillimanium
(Hitchcock 1843)
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Hitchcock 1858 | |||||||||
recombined as Eubrontes sillimani | ||||||||||
Ornithoidichnites cuneatus
(Hitchcock 1837)
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Hitchcock 1844 | |||||||||
synonym of Eubrontes sillimani | ||||||||||
Brontozoum giganteum
(Hitchcock 1836)
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Hitchcock 1865 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Eubrontes giganteus | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Sauropodidae
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Chimaera barrattii
(Hitchcock 1837)
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Hitchcock 1865 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
recombined as Sauropus barrattii | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Argozoum paridigitatum
Hitchcock 1848
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Hitchcock 1865 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Argoides minimus | ||||||||||
Trihamus elegans n. gen., n. sp.
Hitchcock 1862
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Hitchcock 1865 | |||||||||
Harpedactylus gracilis n. sp.
Hitchcock 1848
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Hitchcock 1858 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
synonym of Harpedactylus tenuissimus | ||||||||||
Harpedactylus gracilior n. sp.
Hitchcock 1862
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Hitchcock 1865 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Harpedactylus concamerata n. sp.
Hitchcock 1848
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Lull 1904 | |||||||||
recombined as Platypterna concamerata | ||||||||||
Platypterna digitigrada
Hitchcock 1858
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Lull 1953 | |||||||||
Platypterna deanii
(Hitchcock 1837)
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Lull 1915 | |||||||||
Isocampe strata n. gen., n. sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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Lull 1915 | |||||||||
unclassified
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Bifurculipes scolopendroideus
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Hitchcock 1865 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
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: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Altitude: | 36 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: | micaceous,gray,red sandstone |
Secondary lithology: | lithified "shale" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
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: | D. Marsh, J. Deane & E. Hitchcock | Collection dates: | 1835 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Lull 6, Turner's Falls | ||
Database number: | 52996 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-08-30 12:25:00 | Last modified: | 2019-03-19 14:12:24 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-30 12:25:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
14325. | ETE | E. Hitchcock. 1836. Ornithichnology - description of the foot marks of birds, (Ornithichnites) on new Red Sandstone in Massachusetts. The American Journal of Science and Arts 29(2):307-340 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
23656 | ETE | J. Deane. 1843. On the fossil footmarks of Turner's Falls, Massachusetts. The American Journal of Science and Arts 46(1):73-77 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
23658 | ETE | J. Deane. 1845. Notice of new fossil footprints. The American Journal of Science and Arts 49(1):74-79 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
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] | |
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] |
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] | |
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] |
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] |
30860 | ETE | E. Hitchcock. 1865. Supplement to the ichnology of New England. In C. H. Hitchcock (ed.), Supplement to the Ichnology of New England. A Report to the Government of Massachusetts in 1863 1-37 [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] |
53034 | B. S. Lyman. 1894. Some New Red horizons. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 33:192-215 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
63762 | G. A. Mantell. 1854. The Medals of Creation; or, First Lessions in Geology, and the Study of Organic Remains 2:447-930 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
57410 | D. Marsh. 1848. Foosil footprints. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 2 6:272-274 [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] | |
68227 | T. C. Winkler. 1886. Histoire de l’Ichnologie. Étude Ichnologique sur les Empreintes de Pas d’Animaux Fossiles, Suivie de la Description des Plaques à Impressions d’Animaux qui se Trouvent au Musée Teyler [History of Ichnology. Ichnological Study of Fossil Animal Footprints, Followed by the Description of Slabs with Animal Impressions found in Teyler’s Museum] iv-200 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |