Anomoepus

Anomoepus

Anomoepus
Positive casts of Grallator (A) and Anomoepus (B) tracks at Moyeni
Trace fossil classification
Ichnoclass:	Reptilipedia
Ichnosupercohort:	Dinosauropedida
Ichnomagnorder:	Hitchcock, 1848
Type ichnospecies
A. scambus Hitchcock, 1848
Ichnospecies
26, see text
Synonyms
Corvipes Hitchcock, 1858 Masititrisauropodiscus Ellenberger, 1974 Moyenisauropus Ellenberger, 1974 Trisauropodiscus Ellenberger, 1970

Anomoepus gracillimus is the name assigned to fossil footprints first reported from Early Jurassic beds of the Connecticut River Valley, Massachusetts, USA in 1802.

Map showing tracks of Anomoepus (green) and Grallator (blue) in Moyeni

All four feet have left impressions. The smaller forefeet have five toes, whereas the larger hind feet have three toes. There is also an impression which might indicate where the creature rested. The footprints were discovered, amongst others, by a farm boy, Pliny Moody. E.B. Hitchcock, a clergyman, described the Anomoepus footprints and others as evidence of ancient birds. They have since been identified as belonging to a dinosaur, probably an ornithischian, as indicated by the number of toes and the absence of claws on the rear digits. Trackways assigned to Anomoepus from Western Australia have also been described. Anomoepus is the name of the footprint, not of the dinosaur, the identity of which remains unknown.

Ichnospecies

• A. scambus Hitchcock, 1848
• A. ranivorus Ellenberger, 1970
• A. vermivorous (Ellenberger, 1970)
• A. minimus (Ellenberger, 1970)
• A. minor (Ellenberger, 1970)
• A. palmipes (Ellenberger, 1970)
• A. natator (Ellenberger, 1970)
• A. aviforma (Ellenberger, 1970)
• A. galliforma (Ellenberger, 1970)
• A. superaviforma (Ellenberger, 1970)
• A. phalassianiforma (Ellenberger, 1970)
• A. levis (Ellenberger, 1970)
• A. popompoi (Ellenberger, 1970)
• A. supervipes (Ellenberger, 1970)
• A. fringilla (Ellenberger, 1974)
• A. turda (Ellenberger, 1974)
• A. minutus (Ellenberger, 1974)
• A. perdiciforma (Ellenberger, 1974)
• A. natatilis (Ellenberger, 1974)
• A. levicauda (Ellenberger, 1974)
• A. dodai (Ellenberger, 1974)
• A. longicauda (Ellenberger, 1974)
• A. moghrebensis Biron & Dutuit, 1981
• A. pienkovskii Gierliński, 1991
• A. karaszevskii (Gierliński, 1991)
• A. moabensis (M.G. Lockley, S.Y. Yang, M. Matsukawa, F. Fleming, & Lim, 1992)

See also

• List of dinosaur ichnogenera

Dinosaurs portal

• Ichnology
• Connecticut River Valley trackways

References

Edwin H. Colbert, Dinosaurs, Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1962, p. 188

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