Platypterna digitigrada Hitchcock 1858 (saurischian)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Full reference: 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

Belongs to Platypterna according to H. Haubold 1971

See also Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hitchcock 1858, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898, Lull 1904, Lull 1917 and Lyman 1894

Sister taxa: Platypterna concamerata, Platypterna deanii, Platypterna delicatula, Platypterna gracillima, Platypterna lockatong, Platypterna recta, Platypterna tenuis, Harpedactylus gracilior, Harpedactylus crassus, Harpedactylus tenuissimus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Roswell Field's Orchard, Gill, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone/shale in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Jurassic of United States (3: Massachusetts collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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