Hatcherichnus
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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
- ^ 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.
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