Reptilia - Dinosauria

Alternative combinations: Ornithoidichnites deanii, Platypterna deaniana, Platypterna deanianus

Belongs to Platypterna according to H. Haubold 1971

Sister taxa: Platypterna concamerata, Platypterna delicatula, Platypterna digitigrada, Platypterna gracillima, Platypterna lockatong, Platypterna recta, Platypterna tenuis, Platypterna varica

Type specimen: Its type locality is The Cove, Wethersfield, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine shale in the Portland Formation of Connecticut