Dexter Marsh's Quarry, Montague: Hettangian - Sinemurian, Massachusetts
collected by D. Marsh, E. Hitchcock 1835-1842, 1906

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Ornithichnites diversus Hitchcock 1836
Buckland 1836 2 specimens
recombined as Steropoides diversus
Ornithoidichnites elegans n. sp. Hitchcock 1841
Hitchcock 1841 1 specimen
synonym of Steropoides diversus
Tridentipes ? elegans (Hitchcock 1841)
Hitchcock 1865 2 specimens
synonym of Steropoides diversus
Ornithoidichnites divaricatus n. sp. (Hitchcock 1837)
Lull 1915
recombined as Steropoides divaricatus
Tridentipes insignis n. sp. Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1858 3 specimens
synonym of Steropoides divaricatus
Ornithopus loripes n. sp. Hitchcock 1848
Hitchcock 1848
synonym of Steropoides divaricatus
Reptilia - Sauropodidae
Anomoepus barrattii (Hitchcock 1837)
Hitchcock 1858 1 specimen
recombined as Sauropus barrattii
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Ornithichnites elegantior
Hitchcock 1841
synonym of Eubrontes
Reptilia
Anticheiropus hamatus n. gen., n. sp. Hitchcock 1865
Hitchcock 1865 1 specimen
Anticheiropus pilulatus n. sp. Hitchcock 1865
Hitchcock 1865 2 specimens
Argozoum paridigitatum Hitchcock 1848
Hitchcock 1865 1 specimen
synonym of Argoides minimus
Reptilia - Moyenisauropodidae
Anomoepus isodactylus Hitchcock 1889
Lull 1915
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Massachusetts County:Franklin
Coordinates: 42.5° North, 72.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.2° North, 18.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:79 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Hettangian - Sinemurian
Age range of interval:201.40000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Agawam Formation:Portland
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:micaceous,red sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression,trace
Degree of concentration:-multiple events
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:many
Disassociated major elements:many
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),peel or thin section,field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:D. Marsh, E. Hitchcock Collection dates:1835-1842, 1906
Metadata
Also known as:Montague Canal, Lull 9
Database number:52993
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-08-30 11:57:31 Last modified:2020-02-14 16:19:08
Access level:the public Released:2005-08-30 11:57:31
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
14325.ETE E. Hitchcock. 1836. Ornithichnology - description of the foot marks of birds, (Ornithichnites) on new Red Sandstone in Massachusetts. The American Journal of Science and Arts 29(2):307-340 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

31171ETE W. Buckland. 1836. Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, Volume II. William Pickering, London 1-128 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
30862ETE C. H. Hitchcock. 1865. Appendix [B]. Descriptive catalogue of the specimens in the Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet of Amherst College. In C. H. Hitchcock (ed.), Supplement to the Ichnology of New England. A Report to the Government of Massachusetts in 1863 43-96 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
71713 C. H. Hitchcock and N. M. Grier. 1927. The Hitchcock Lecture upon ichnology, and the Dartmouth College ichnological collection. The American Midland Naturalist 10(7):161-197 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
71650 E. Hitchcock. 1836. Beschreibung der Fuss-Spuren von Vögeln (Ornithichnites) [Description of the footprints of birds (Ornithichnites)]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrfakten-Kunde 1836:467-472 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
69420 E. Hitchcock. 1841. Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts xii-831 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
30909 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 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29531ETE 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 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
30860ETE E. Hitchcock. 1865. Supplement to the ichnology of New England. In C. H. Hitchcock (ed.), Supplement to the Ichnology of New England. A Report to the Government of Massachusetts in 1863 1-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
15230ETE R. S. Lull. 1904. Fossil footprints of the Jura-Trias of North America. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 5(11):461-557 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14628ETE R. S. Lull. 1915. Triassic life of the Connecticut Valley. State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin 24:1-285 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14321ETE R. S. Lull. 1953. Triassic life of the Connecticut Valley (revised). State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin 81:1-336 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
57410 D. Marsh. 1848. Foosil footprints. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 2 6:272-274 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
68227 T. C. Winkler. 1886. Histoire de l’Ichnologie. Étude Ichnologique sur les Empreintes de Pas d’Animaux Fossiles, Suivie de la Description des Plaques à Impressions d’Animaux qui se Trouvent au Musée Teyler [History of Ichnology. Ichnological Study of Fossil Animal Footprints, Followed by the Description of Slabs with Animal Impressions found in Teyler’s Museum] iv-200 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]