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Steropoides uncus

Taxonomy

Tridentipes uncus was named by Hitchcock (1858). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is AC 6/1, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Lily Pond Quarry, Gill, which is in a Hettangian fluvial-lacustrine shale/sandstone in the Turners Falls Formation of Massachusetts.

It was recombined as Steropoides uncus by Lull (1904) and Lull (1917).

Sister species

Steropezoum elegantius, S. divaricatus, S. diversus, S. elegans, S. infelix, S. ingens (syn. Sillimanius adamsanus), S. loripes (syn. Tridentipes insignis)

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Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1858	Tridentipes uncus Hitchcock
1889	Tridentipes uncus Hitchcock p. 118
1904	Steropoides uncus Lull p. 525
1917	Steropoides uncus Lull p. 122

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