EB. Hitchcock on new Fossil Footmarks. 97 
2. Description of a new and remarkable species of Fossil Foot- 
mark, from the Sandstone of Turner’s Falls, in the Con- 
necticut Valley. 
Not long since, my attention was called by Roswell Field, 
sq. to an extraordinary footmark in a quarry upon his farm 
hear Turner’s Falls in Gill. T advised him to get out if possible 
a slab containing a series of the tracks, which he did with much 
judgment and skill, and subsequently I purchased the speciinen 
for the Ichnological Cabinet of Amherst College, where it is now 
eposited, 
[have regarded the Otozoum Moodii as the most remarkable 
N animal, so far as we can judge from footmarks, that ever trod the 
valley of the Connecticut. But the animal that made this new 
Gigandipus. 
Bipedal : tailed: tetradactylous: the three toes pointing for- 
ward broad and long; the fourth curved, narrow and short, pro- 
ceeding inward almost laterally from the back part of the heel. 
Gigandipus caudatus. 
Divarication of the middle and inner toes, 20° to 23°. Of the | 
_ middi The three forward toes, thick, rounded, 
3 he hind 
race of a tail very ma 
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