Hatcherichnus
Trace fossil
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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]
| Hatcherichnus | |
|---|---|
Trace fossil classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Ichnogenus: | †Hatcherichnus Foster and Lockley, 1997 |
