Herpetichnus bucklandi Jardine 1850 (synapsid)

Osteichthyes - Caseasauria - Caseidae

Full reference: W. Jardine. 1850. Note to Mr. Harkness's paper on "The position of the impressions of footsteps in the Bunter Sandstone of Dumfries-shire". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 2 6(33):208-209

Belongs to Herpetichnus according to W. Jardine 1850

See also Haubold 1971, McKeever and Haubold 1996 and Schmidt 1959

Sister taxa: Chelichnus ambiguum, Chelichnus bucklandi, Chelichnus duncani, Chelichnus gigas, Chelichnus hicklingi, Chelichnus ingens, Chelichnus megacheirus, Chelichnus obliquus, Chelichnus plancus, Chelichnus pricei, Chelichnus titan, Chelichnus tripodizon, Chelichnus wymanianus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Corncockle Quarry, which is in a Cisuralian terrestrial sandstone in the Corncockle Sandstone Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Corncockle Quarry

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