Ichnospecies: quadrifidus MATTHEW, 1905
Etymology:

Holotype: New Brunswick Museum, St. John, New Brunswick, NMG 3039

Locality: Joggins Fossil Centre, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia Province, Canada.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Westphalian B, Lower Upper Silesian series, Kashirskian Stage, Lower Moscovian Epoch, Early Middle Pennsylvanian, (Late Carboniferous).

Material:

Note: From MOSSMAN & GRANTHAM, 1996 “...Evidently Matthew sent the natural mould of the holotype to Dawson. It is housed in the Redpath Museum (RM), McGill University, as No. 2.1146, Ralthough listed in the RM catalogue (Alison and Carroll 1972, p. 71) as Batrachites quadrifidus Matthew. Plaster cast, 9 cm x 4 cm, of the natural mould of the holotype is also housed in the New Brunswick Museum, as NBMG 3058, and matches the RM specimen No. 2/1146.

Referred material:

MOSSMAN & GRANTHAM, 1996

Locality: Joggins Fossil Centre, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Horizon: Westephalian B, Middle Pennsylvanian.

Material:

Hypotype: Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History on latex mould specimen 5364110: One trackway consisting of 20 footprints, of which 8 occur as successive sets.

 

SCHULT, 1995

Locality: NMNH Locality 846, Locality 4, Red Beds north and west of Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Horizon: Robledo Mountains Member, Hueco Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Wolfcampanian, Lower Rotliegendes Epoch, Early Permian.

Material:

Number: Not given: Trackway.

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