Bulletin - United States Geological Survey Volume 595-599 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...Manchester, New Haven, and Simsbury, in Connecticut. The footprints occur scatteringly the entire length of the valley from above Turners Falls to New Haven, but the greatest abundance, both of separate localities and profusion of species and specimens, is in the northern portion of the area, specifically around Turners Falls and near South Hadley. Hitchcock, in the " Ichnology of Massachusetts," enumerates no fewer than 38 quarries containing fossil footprints, and a very few localities have been discovered since that time. The creatures known from the bones are as follows: Class EEPTILIA. Order Parasuchia Huxley: Suborder Aetosauria Nicholson and Lydekker (=Pseudosucbia Zittel): Family Aetosaurida?: Stesomus arcuatus Marsh. New Haven, Conn. SteKomus leucines Emerson and Loomis. Longmeadow, Mass. Suborder Phytosauria Baur: Family Phytosauridae McGregor: Rutiodon (Belodon) validus (Marsh). Simsbury, Conn. Order Dinosauria Owen: Suborder Theropodn Marsh: Superfamlly Megalosauria Baur: Family Anchisauridffl Marsh: Anehisaurus (Megadactylus) polyzelus (E. Hitchcock, jr.). Springfield, Mass. Anehisaurus colurus Marsii. Manchester, East Windsor, Conn. Anehisaurus solus Marsh. Manchester, Conn. Arumosaurus major Marsh. Manchester, Conn. Superfamily Compsognatha Huxley: Family Podokesauridre Lull: Podokesaurus holyokensis Talbot. South Iladley, Mass. These forms may be briefly described as follows: The Parasuchia were Reptilia of more or less lizard-like form and had an outer armor consisting of bony plates which were in part segmentally arranged. They were distinguished from the later crocodilians mainly by the internal nares (nostrils). These were normal in position and not shifted far to the rear by the growth of a secondary bony palate, as in the mod...