Palamopus anomalus Hitchcock 1845 (aetosaur)

Reptilia - Pseudosuchia - Batrachopodidae

Synonyms: Macropterna recta Hitchcock 1848, Ornithichnites palmatus Hitchcock 1836, Sauroidichnites palmatus Hitchcock 1836

Full reference: E. Hitchcock. 1845. An attempt to name, classify, and describe, the animals that made the fossil footmarks of New England. Sixth Annual Meeeting of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, New Haven, CT. Abstract and Proceedings 23-25

Belongs to Palamopus according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Hay 1902, Hitchcock 1836, Hitchcock 1836, Hitchcock 1837, Hitchcock 1841, Hitchcock 1845, Hitchcock 1848, Lull 1904 and Miller 1879

Sister taxa: Batrachopus argentinus, Batrachopus bakoenaorum, Batrachopus bellus, Batrachopus deweyi, Batrachopus dispar, Batrachopus gainensis, Batrachopus gilberti, Batrachopus gracilis, Batrachopus grandis, Batrachopus pilosus, Batrachopus rugosus, Batrachopus supersaltator, Batrachopus tenuis, Batrachopus varians, Orthodactylus howelli, Palamopus divaricans, Comptichnus moorosi, Sustenodactylus hollandicus, Chelonoides wittei, Chelonoides robusta

Ecology: herbivore

Distribution: found only at Horse Race Quarry, Gill (Jurassic of Massachusetts)

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