northeast Deerfield tracksite (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as Greenfield, Lull 10

Where: Franklin County, Massachusetts (42.6° N, 72.6° W: paleocoordinates 24.3° N, 18.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Portland Formation (Agawam Group), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; micaceous, gray sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by J. Deane, T. Leonard in 1835

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 91578: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.10.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• 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.
Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Batrachopodidae
Tarsodactylus expansus n. sp.3 Hitchcock 1866 aetosaur
 Ornithischia - Moyenisauropodidae
Anomoepus major1, "Anomoepus minor" = Anomoepus scambus1
Anomoepus major1 Hitchcock 1858 ornithopod
"Anomoepus minor" = Anomoepus scambus1 Hitchcock 1848 ornithopod
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
"Ornithoidichnites giganteus" = Eubrontes giganteus
"Ornithoidichnites giganteus" = Eubrontes giganteus Hitchcock 1836 theropod
Hoplichnus
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Hoplichnus equus2 Hitchcock 1858