Reptilia - Theropoda - Grallatoridae

Alternative combinations: Anchisauripus minisculus, Anchisauripus minuscolus, Anchisauripus minusculus, Brontozoum minusculum, Grallator (Anchisauripus) minusculus, Grallator minusculus, Ornithichnites minusculus

Synonyms: Anchisauripus tuberatus Hitchcock 1858, Brontozoum tuberatum Hitchcock 1858, Eubrontes tuberatus Hitchcock 1858, Plesiornis giganteus Hitchcock 1889

Full reference: E. Hitchcock. 1837. Fossil footsteps in sandstone and graywacke. The American Journal of Sciences and Arts 32:174-176

Belongs to Eubrontes according to R. E. Weems 1992

See also Baird 1957, Bessedik et al. 2008, Bessedik et al. 2020, Deane 1861, Demathieu 1993, Demathieu 2003, Demathieu et al. 2002, Demathieu and Sciau 1992, Fujita et al. 2008, Gand et al. 2005, Gand et al. 2005, Gand et al. 2018, Gand et al. 2000, Gierlinski 1996, Gierlinski and Pienkowski 1999, Haubold 1971, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hitchcock 1837, Hitchcock 1858, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898, Hitchcock and Grier 1927, Kuhn 1963, Lockley 1986, Lull 1904, Lull 1915, Lull 1917, Lull 1953, Lyman 1894, Moreau et al. 2019, Moreau et al. 2012, Moreau et al. 2017, Moreau et al. 2014, Moreau et al. 2018, Olsen 1980, Olsen and Galton 1984, Sarjeant 1975, Thulborn 1990 and Young 1960

Sister taxa: Eubrontes (Grallator), Eubrontes euskelosauroides, Eubrontes expansus, Eubrontes fieldi, Eubrontes giganteus, Eubrontes glenrosensis, Eubrontes lyellii, Eubrontes monax, Eubrontes nianpanshanensis, Eubrontes nobitai, Eubrontes pareschequier, Eubrontes platypus, Eubrontes sillimani, Eubrontes tatricus, Eubrontes veillonensis, Eubrontes xiyangensis, Eubrontes zigongensis, Lufengopus dongi, Megaichnites jizhaoshiensis, Tuojiangpus shuinanensis, Zizhongpus wumaensis, Ornithichnites crassus, Ornithichnites argenterae, Otouphepus declivis, Brontozoum isodactylum, Brontozoum thianschanicum, Gigandipus hei, Gigandipus minor, Gigandipus chiappei, Gigandipus caudatus, Zizhongpus wumanensis, Ichnites pterodactyli

Type specimens:

• Eubrontes minusculus: AC 16/1, 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.
• Eubrontes tuberatus: AC 27/17, 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.
• Plesiornis giganteus: Mount Holyoke College (destroyed), a footprint. Its type locality is The Cove, Wethersfield, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine shale in the Portland Formation of Connecticut.

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.