Argoides macrodactylus

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArgoidesPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 201.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 192.9 Mya.
8 occurrences of Argoides macrodactylus on record. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
8 occurrencesThese are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
3 formations
- Portland Formation · Agawam Group6
- Turners Falls Formation · Meriden Group1
- Passaic Formation · Chatham Group1
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The named rock units Argoides macrodactylus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
108 taxa- Grallator tuberosus6 sites
- Eubrontes giganteus5 sites
- Plectropterna minitans5 sites
- Anomoepus scambus4 sites
- Eubrontes sillimani4 sites
- Grallator tenuis4 sites
- Sillimanius tetradactylus4 sites
- Anomoepus lacertoideus3 sites
- Argoides minimus3 sites
- Batrachopus deweyi3 sites
- Grallator cursorius3 sites
- Herpystezoum3 sites
- Platypterna tenuis3 sites
- Plectropterna gracilis3 sites
- Plectropterna lineans3 sites
- Steropoides diversus3 sites
- Acanthichnus2 sites
- Ancyropus heteroclitus2 sites
- Annelida2 sites
- Batrachopus2 sites
- Cochlichnus2 sites
- Conopsoides2 sites
- Eubrontes minusculus2 sites
- Ornithoidichnites2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Argoides macrodactylus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
5 references- Hitchcock, 18582
- An attempt to discriminate and describe the animals that made the fossil footmarks of the United States, and especially of New England2
- Hitchcock, 18412
- Recent progress in ichnology1
- Appendix [B]. Descriptive catalogue of the specimens in the Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet of Amherst College1
Each of the 8 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Argoides macrodactylus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Argoides macrodactylus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itArgoides through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hitchcock 1841)