Ornithichnites
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| Ornithichnites Temporal range: Early Jurassic, | |
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Trace fossil classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Ichnogenus: | †Ornithichnites Hitchcock, 1836 |
| Type ichnospecies | |
| †Ornithichnites crassus Hitchcock, 1837 | |
| Other ichnospecies | |
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Ornithichnites is an ichnotaxon of mammal footprint that was originally classified as a dinosaur.[1] The name was originally used by Edward Hitchcock in 1836 as a higher group name rather than a specific ichnogenus,[1] and thus the name does not have priority over specific ichnogeneric names even if they were first identified as Ornithichnites.[2][3] Only two ichnospecies exist: O. crassus[4] and O. argenterae.[5]
