Anomoepus Hitchcock 1848 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Moyenisauropodidae

Synonyms: Hopiichnus Welles 1971, Moyenisauripus Ellenberger 1970, Moyenisauropus Ellenberger 1970, Shensipus Young 1966

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

Parent taxon: Moyenisauropodidae according to G. Gierlinski 1991

See also Avanzini et al. 2001, Ellenberger 1972, Ellenberger 1974, Gierlinksi and Potemska 1987, Gierlinski and Niedzwiedzki 2005, Gierlinski et al. 2009, Haubold 1969, Haubold 1971, Haubold 1974, Hitchcock 1848, Hitchcock 1898, Hitchcock and Grier 1927, Irmis 2005, Knoll 2005, Kuhn 1958, Kuhn 1963, Li et al. 2010, Li and Zhang 2017, Lockley and Gierlinski 2006, Lockley et al. 2009, Lull 1904, Lull 1915, Lull 1917, Lull 1924, Lull 1953, Niedźwiedzki 2011, Niedzwiedzki and Pienkowski 2004, Olsen 1986, Olsen and Galton 1984, Olsen and Rainforth 2003, Romero Molina et al. 2003, Smith et al. 2009, Thulborn 1993, Thulborn 2006, Weishampel 2006, Welles 1971, Xing et al. 2015, Xing et al. 2016, Young 1966 and Zhen et al. 1989

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Anomoepus crassus Anomoepus culbertsonii Anomoepus fringilla Anomoepus gallinuloides Anomoepus giganteus Anomoepus lacertoideus Anomoepus major Anomoepus minutus Anomoepus moabensis Anomoepus moghrebensis Anomoepus palmipes Anomoepus pienkovskii Anomoepus ranivorus Anomoepus scambus Anomoepus shingi Anomoepus turda Moyenisauropus karaszevskii Shensipus tungchuanensis Shensipus xiaoliheensis

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Type: Anomoepus scambus

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of China (1 collection), United States (1: Colorado)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Canada (1: British Columbia)

• Jurassic of Argentina (1), Australia (2), Canada (3: Nova Scotia), China (11), Italy (1), Lesotho (6), Poland (8), Portugal (5), Spain (2), United States (45: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Utah, Wyoming)

• Triassic of Italy (1), Morocco (1), Poland (1), United States (5: New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Virginia)

Total: 95 collections including 157 occurrences

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