Brachychirotherium parvum Hitchcock 1889

Reptilia - Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae

Alternative combinations: Chirotherium parvum, Chirotherium parvus, Otozoum parvum

Synonyms: Agrestipus hottoni Weems 1987, Chirotherium copei Bock 1952

Full reference: C. H. Hitchcock. 1889. Recent progress in ichnology. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 24(8):117-127

Belongs to Brachychirotherium according to H. Haubold 1971

See also Baird 1957, Bock 1952, Bock 1959, Conrad and Lockley 1986, Courel et al. 1968, Demathieu 1970, Demathieu and Haubold 1972, Ellenberger et al. 1970, Haubold 1969, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898, Hunt and Lucas 2007, Klein and Lucas 2021, Kuhn 1958, Kuhn 1963, Lockley 1986, Lockley et al. 1995, Lull 1917, Lyman 1895, Olsen and Baird 1986, Peabody 1948, Rainforth 2003, Weems 1987, Weems 1992, Weems 2006, Weems 2006, Weems et al. 2007 and Weishampel 2006

Sister taxa: Brachychirotherium circaparvum, Brachychirotherium eyermani, Brachychirotherium gallicum, Brachychirotherium harrasense, Brachychirotherium hauboldi, Brachychirotherium hessei, Brachychirotherium kalkowensis, Brachychirotherium kuhni, Brachychirotherium lorteti, Brachychirotherium pachydactylum, Brachychirotherium paraparvum, Brachychirotherium praeparvum, Brachychirotherium thuringiacum, Brachychirotherium wiorense

Type specimens:

  • Brachychirotherium parvum: LC S490, a footprint. Its type locality is Smith Clark's quarry, Milford (level B), which is in a Norian terrestrial shale/sandstone in the Passaic Formation of New Jersey.
  • Agrestipus hottoni: USNM 358653, a footprint. Its type locality is Culpeper Crushed Stone Quarry (upper), which is in a Lacian/Alaunian lacustrine - large siltstone/mudstone in the Bull Run Formation of Virginia.
  • Chirotherium copei: ANSP 15210, a footprint. Its type locality is Smith Clark's quarry, Milford (level B), which is in a Norian terrestrial shale/sandstone in the Passaic Formation of New Jersey.

Distribution:

• Triassic of Canada (1: Nova Scotia collection), France (3), Italy (1), Morocco (2), United States (6: New Jersey, Virginia)

Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence

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