Kayentapus minor Hitchcock 1858 (theropod)

Reptilia - Theropoda

Alternative combinations: Apatichnus minor, Apatichnus minus, Gigantitherium minus

Synonyms: Leptonyx lateralis Hitchcock 1865, Stenonyx lateralis Hitchcock 1865

Full reference: E. Hitchcock. 1858. Ichnology of New England. A Report on the Sandstone of the Connecticut Valley, Especially its Fossil Footmarks, Made to the Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts xii-214

Belongs to Kayentapus according to A. R. C. Milner et al. 2009

See also Gierlinski and Niedzwiedzki 2002, Haubold 1969, Haubold 1971, Haubold 1974, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hitchcock 1865, Hitchcock 1871, Hitchcock 1889, Hitchcock 1898, Hitchcock and Grier 1927, Irby 1996, Kuhn 1963, Li et al. 2010, Lockley et al. 2011, Lull 1904, Lull 1915, Lull 1917, Lull 1953, Lyman 1894, Mietto et al. 2000, Peng et al. 2023, Petti et al. 2011, Sciscio et al. 2017, Thulborn 1990, Wagensommer et al. 2016, Weems 1987, Weems 1992, Weems 2006, Weems 2006, Weems et al. 2007, Welles 1971, Xing et al. 2011 and Xing et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Kayentapus ambrokholohali, Kayentapus damarensis, Kayentapus hailiutuensis, Kayentapus hopii, Kayentapus nananensis, Kayentapus otariensis, Kayentapus soltykovensis, Kayentapus ubacensis, Kayentapus xiaohebaensis

Type specimens:

  • Kayentapus minor: AC 1/3, 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.
  • Stenonyx lateralis: AC 47/40, a footprint. Its type locality is below Turners Falls, tracksite, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone/shale in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of United States (3: Massachusetts collections)

• Triassic of United States (3: Virginia)

Total: 6 collections including 7 occurrences

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