†Ornithopus adamsanus Hitchcock 1848 (reptile)
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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 Ornithopus according to E. Hitchcock 1848
See also Hay 1902
Sister taxa: Sillimanius gracilior, Sillimanius tetradactylus, Ornithopus rectus, Ornithopus fabrei
Type specimen: no. 125, a footprint. Its type locality is Montague City, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Montague City
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