ammonites
Anomoepus scambus Hitchcock 1848 (bird foot dinosaur)

Archosauria - Dinosauria - Anomoepodidae

Synonyms: Anomoepus dodai Ellenberger 1974, Anomoepus longicauda Ellenberger 1974, Anomoepus minor Hitchcock 1858, Moyenisauropus dodai Ellenberger 1974, Moyenisauropus levicauda Ellenberger 1974, Moyenisauropus longicauda Ellenberger 1974

Full reference: E. Hitchcock. 1848. An attempt to discriminate and describe the animals that made the fossil footmarks of the United States, and especially of New England. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, new series 3:129-256

Belongs to Anomoepus according to H. Haubold 1971

Sister taxa: Anomoepus crassus, Anomoepus cuneatus, Anomoepus curvatus, Anomoepus gracillimus, Anomoepus intermedius, Anomoepus isodactylus, Anomoepus minimus, Anomoepus natator, Anomoepus pienkovskii, Anomoepus ranivorus

Type specimens:

  • Anomoepus scambus: AC 16/5, 34/40, a footprint. Its type locality is below Turners Falls, tracksite, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone/shale in the Portland Formation of Massachusetts.
  • Anomoepus minor:
  • Moyenisauropus dodai:
  • Moyenisauropus levicauda:
  • Moyenisauropus longicauda:

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore