Genre
Ichnogenre Taxon formel Éteint

Anticheiropus

Hitchcock 1865

Anticheiropus is an ichnogenus of dinosaur footprint belonging to a saurischian. It has only been discovered in Massachusetts. Two ichnospecies are known : A. hamatus and A. pilulatus, both discovered around 1863 and named by Edward Hitchcock in 1865.

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Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
3
Groupe
Dinosaures
Terrestre
Anticheiropus
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Lower Triassic fossil footprint (ichnite) of the ichnogenus Chirotherium, probably caused by an early archosaur, and first discovered 1833 in Hildburghausen (Thuringia, Germany). This specimen, however, ist from the Helsby Sandstone of the Storeton Quarry near Liverpool. Its species name is Chirotherium storetonense.[1] © Ballista · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Clade non classé
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Saurischia Clade non classé
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Anticheiropus Genre
Sites de découverte 3 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇺🇸 États-Unis
3
Formations géologiques
Portland
2
Turners Falls
1
Distribution temporelle
Sinémurien (199.5–192.9 Ma)
2
Hettangien (201.4–199.5 Ma)
1
Espèces (2)
Anticheiropus hamatus 201 Ma
Anticheiropus pilulatus 201 Ma
Images 1
Bibliographie
Description originale
E. Hitchcock. 1865. Supplement to the ichnology of New England. Supplement to the Ichnology of New England. A Report to the Government of Massachusetts in 1863
Bibliographie (2)
E. Hitchcock. 1865. Supplement to the ichnology of New England. Supplement to the Ichnology of New England. A Report to the Government of Massachusetts in 1863
C. H. Hitchcock. 1865. Appendix [B]. Descriptive catalogue of the specimens in the Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet of Amherst College. Supplement to the Ichnology of New England. A Report to the Government of Massachusetts in 1863