Antipus bifidus Hitchcock 1858 (pterosaur)

Reptilia - Pterosauria

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 Antipus according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Hay 1902, Hitchcock 1858, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898, Lull 1904, Lyman 1894 and McCrea et al. 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Ferry above Turners Falls, tracksite, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts

Ecology: volant piscivore

Distribution: found only at Ferry above Turners Falls, tracksite

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