Reptilia - Dinosauria - Grallatoridae

Alternative combination: Brontozoum exsertum

Full reference: 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. William White, Printer, Boston 1-214

Belongs to Anchisauripus according to H. Haubold 1971

Sister taxa: Eubrontes (Brontozoum), Eubrontes (Ichnites), Eubrontes (Ornithichnites), 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 gwyneddensis, Anchisauripus minor, Anchisauripus milfordensis, Anchisauripus poolei, Anchisauripus bibractensis, Anchisauripus thomasi, Fulicopus minor, Gigandipus caudatus, Otouphepus declivis

Type specimen: AC 16/6, a footprint. Its type locality is Ashael Lyman's, Northampton tracksite, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian lacustrine - small sandstone/mudstone in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore