Hatcherichnus

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Hatcherichnus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Order: Crocodilia
Ichnogenus:† Hatcherichnus
Foster and Lockley, 1997

Hatcherichnus is a trace fossil ichnogenus from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of western North America and Europe. [1] The type material is from the Salt Wash Member of the Morrison Formation in southeastern Utah, although the name is in honor of John Bell Hatcher, who illustrated a referred specimen from the Morrison of Garden Park, Colorado, in 1903. The type specimen consists of natural casts of the manus and pes, plus a tail trace, preserved in the roof of a uranium mine. [2] These traces are believed to be those of swimming or floating neosuchian crocodyliforms. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Avanzini, Marco; Piñuela, Laura; Ruiz-Omeñaca, J. Ignacio; Garcia-Ramos, Jose (June 2010). "The crocodyle track Hatcherichnus from the Upper Jurassic of Asturias (Spain)". N M Mus Nat Hist Sci Bull. 51– via ResearchGate.
  2. 1 2 Foster, John; Lockley, Martin (1997). "Probable crocodilian tracks and traces from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of eastern Utah" . Ichnos. 5 (2): 121–129. Bibcode:1997Ichno...5..121F. doi:10.1080/10420949709386411.


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