Classification
Dinosauria
Unranked clade
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Saurischia
Unranked clade
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Sauropodomorpha
Unranked clade
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Bagualosauria
Unranked clade
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Plateosauria
Unranked clade
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Anchisauria
Unranked clade
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Prosauropoda
Unranked clade
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Otozoidae
Family
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Otozoum
Genus
Fossil sites 26 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
Geological formations
Temporal distribution
Toarcian
(184.2–174.7 Ma)
9
Pliensbachian
(192.9–184.2 Ma)
2
Sinemurian
(199.5–192.9 Ma)
5
Hettangian
(201.4–199.5 Ma)
4
Norian
(227.3–205.7 Ma)
6
Species (4)
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
E. Hitchcock. 1847. Description of two new species of fossil footmarks found in Massachusetts and Connecticut, or, of the animals that made them. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 2 4(10):46-57
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E. Hitchcock. 1856. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Additional facts respecting the tracks of the Otozoum moodii on the Liassic sandstone of the Connecticut Valley 1856:228
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