| Anomoepus | |
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| Positive casts ofGrallator (A) andAnomoepus (B) tracks at Moyeni | |
Trace fossil classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Ichnofamily: | †Anomoepodidae |
| Ichnogenus: | †Anomoepus Hitchcock, 1848 |
| Type ichnospecies | |
| †Anomoepus scambus Hitchcock, 1848 | |
| Ichnospecies | |
26,see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Anomoepus is the name assigned to severalfossilfootprints first reported fromEarly Jurassic beds of theConnecticut River Valley,Massachusetts, US in 1802.
All four feet have left impressions. The smaller forefeet have five toes, whereas the larger hind feet have three toes. There is also an impression which might indicate where the creature rested. The footprints were discovered, amongst others, by a farm boy, Pliny Moody.[citation needed]E.B. Hitchcock, a clergyman, described theAnomoepus footprints and others as evidence of ancientbirds. They have since been identified as belonging to adinosaur, probably anornithischian, as indicated by the number of toes and the absence of claws on the rear digits. Trackways assigned toAnomoepus fromWestern Australia,Poland andCzech Republic[1] have also been described.Anomoepus is the name of the footprint, not of the dinosaur, the identity of which remains unknown.
Edwin H. Colbert (1962).Dinosaurs. Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. p. 188.
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