Species
Ichnogenus Extinct

Grallator cursorius

(Hitchcock 1858)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
48
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Theropoda Unranked clade
Grallatoridae Family
Grallator Genus
Grallator cursorius Species
Fossil sites 48 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
43
🇨🇦 Canada
4
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Wingate Sandstone
9
Sheep Pen Sandstone
4
McCoy Brook
4
Redonda
3
Moenave
3
Rock Point
1
Temporal distribution
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
1
Sinemurian (199.5–192.9 Ma)
11
Hettangian (201.4–199.5 Ma)
12
Rhaetian (205.7–201.4 Ma)
10
Norian (227.3–205.7 Ma)
14
Synonyms (2)
Atreipus sulcatus subjective synonym of Grallator cursorius
Ornithichnites parallelus subjective synonym of Grallator cursorius
Bibliography
Original description
D. Baird. 1957. Triassic reptile footprint faunules from Milford, New Jersey. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 117(5):449-520
Bibliography (16)
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L.-d. Xing, J. D. Harris, and X.-y. Feng, Z.-j. Zhang. 2009. Theropoda (Dinosauria: Saurischia) tracks from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation at Sihetun Village, Liaoning Province, China and possible track makers. Geological Bulletin of China 28(6):705-712
A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 2007. Late Triassic tetrapod tracks of western North America. In S. G. Lucas & J. A. Spielmann (eds.), Triassic of the American West. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 40:215-230
W. B. Gallagher and P. A. Hanczaryk. 2006. The West Paterson Quarry: an Early Jurassic dinosaur track site in the Newark Basin of New Jersey. The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37:238-240
A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 2006. The significance of the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm: a Jurassic Konzentrat-Ichnolagerstätte, Utah, U.S.A. The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37:282-288
M. G. Lockley, A. P. Hunt, and C. A. Meyer, E. C. Rainforth, R. J. Schultz. 1998. A survey of fossil footprint sites at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (western USA): a case study in documentation of trace fossil resources at a national preserve. Ichnos 5(3):177-211 DOI ↗
P. E. Olsen. 1989. Stop 11.2: Five Islands Provincial Park. Tectonic, Depositional, and Paleoecological History of Early Mesozoic Rift Basins, Eastern North America. Gulf, North Carolina, USA to Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, Canada. July 20–30, 1989. International Geological Congress Field Trip T-351
P. E. Olsen. 1981. Comment on ‘Eolian dune field of Late Triassic age, Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia’. Geology 9(12):557-559 DOI ↗
R. H. Nelson. 1965. New locality for dinosaur tracks in Connecticut. Rocks and Minerals 40:5-7 DOI ↗
D. Baird. 1957. Triassic reptile footprint faunules from Milford, New Jersey. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 117(5):449-520
M. R. Thorpe. 1929. A new Triassic fossil field. The American Journal of Science, series 5 18(106):277-300 DOI ↗
R. S. Lull. 1915. Triassic life of the Connecticut Valley. State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin 24:1-285 DOI ↗
C. H. Hitchcock. 1889. Recent progress in ichnology. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 24(8):117-127
C. H. Hitchcock. 1865. Appendix [B]. Descriptive catalogue of the specimens in the Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet of Amherst College. Supplement to the Ichnology of New England. A Report to the Government of Massachusetts in 1863
E. Hitchcock. 1858. Ichnology of New England. A Report on the Sandstone of the Connecticut Valley, Especially its Fossil Footmarks, Made to the Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts DOI ↗
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