Reptilia - Dinosauria - Grallatoridae

Alternative spelling: Ornithichnites

Full reference: 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

Parent taxon: Eubrontes according to H. Haubold 1971

Sister taxa: Eubrontes (Brontozoum), Eubrontes (Ichnites), Eubrontes approximatus, Eubrontes cursorius, Eubrontes euskelosauroides, Eubrontes fieldi, Eubrontes giganteus, Eubrontes glenrosensis, Eubrontes lyellii, Eubrontes sillimani, Eubrontes tuberatus, Eubrontes veillonensis, Grallator (Eubrontes) divaricatus, Grallator (Eubrontes) platypus, Brontozoum expansum, Brontozoum thianschanicum, Grallator emeiensis, Grallator (Grallator), Grallator damanei, Grallator matsiengensis, Grallator molapoi, Grallator graciosus, Grallator rectilineus, Grallator minor, Grallator crassidigitus, Grallator palmipes, Grallator palustris, Grallator lambereshei, Grallator morijensis, Grallator moshoeshoei, Grallator princeps, Grallator limnosus, Grallator cuneatus, Grallator formosus, Grallator gracilis, Grallator sulcatus, Grallator tenuis, Grallator maximus, Grallator olonensis, Grallator variabilis, Grallator (Anchisauripus) hitchcocki, Grallator (Anchisauripus) minusculus, Anchisauripus tuberosus, Anchisauripus australis, Anchisauripus exsertus, Anchisauripus gwyneddensis, Anchisauripus minor, Anchisauripus milfordensis, Anchisauripus poolei, Anchisauripus bibractensis, Anchisauripus thomasi, Fulicopus minor, Gigandipus caudatus, Otouphepus declivis

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore