Alternative combinations: Ornithichnites deanii, Ornithoidichnites deanii, Platypterna deaniana, Platypterna deanianus
Full reference: E. Hitchcock. 1837. Fossil footsteps in sandstone and graywacke. The American Journal of Sciences and Arts 32:174-176
Belongs to Platypterna according to H. Haubold 1971
See also Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hitchcock 1837, Hitchcock 1841, Hitchcock 1845, Hitchcock 1848, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898, Hitchcock and Grier 1927, Lull 1904, Lull 1917 and Warren 1854
Sister taxa: Platypterna concamerata, Platypterna delicatula, Platypterna digitigrada, Platypterna gracillima, Platypterna lockatong, Platypterna recta, Platypterna tenuis, Harpedactylus tenuissimus, Harpedactylus crassus, Harpedactylus gracilior
Type specimen: Its type locality is The Cove, Wethersfield, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine shale in the Portland Formation of Connecticut
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Jurassic of United States (3: Connecticut, Massachusetts collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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