Alternative combinations: Eupalamopus dananus, Palamopus dananus
Synonym: Palamopus clarki Hitchcock 1858
Full reference: 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
Belongs to Polemarchus according to H. Haubold 1971
See also Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hitchcock 1848, Hitchcock 1858, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1898, Lull 1904 and Lull 1917
Sister taxon: Polemarchus polemarchius
Type specimens:
- Polemarchus dananus: AC 12/1, a footprint. Its type locality is Ashael Lyman's, Northampton tracksite, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian lacustrine - small sandstone/mudstone in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.
- Palamopus clarki: Its type locality is Ashael Lyman's, Northampton tracksite, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian lacustrine - small sandstone/mudstone in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.
Distribution:
• Jurassic of United States (2: Massachusetts collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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