Plesiornis pilulatus Hitchcock 1858 (saurischian)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Belongs to Plesiornis according to H. Haubold 1971

See also Gierlinski and Pienkowski 1999, Haubold 1974, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hitchcock 1865, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Kuhn 1963, Lull 1904, Lull 1917, Lull 1953, Lyman 1894 and Thulborn and Wade 1984

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AC 13/1, a footprint. Its type locality is Lily Pond Quarry, Gill, which is in a Hettangian fluvial-lacustrine siltstone/sandstone in the Turners Falls Formation of Massachusetts.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Poland (1 collection), United States (2: Massachusetts)

• Triassic of United States (1: Virginia)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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