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Fig.7. part of the display of vertebrate footprint specimens in Warwick Museum, 1905. The principalslab shows prints attributable to Cheirotherium cf. herculis Egerton. Photo: J. Harriott, Warwick(Beasley Collection no. 365).ACKNOWLEDGEMENTI am indebted to Dr Geoffrey Tresise (Keeperof Geology, Merseyside County Museums,Liverpool) for his valuable assistance inidentifying localities mentioned by Beasley ,and for his critical comments on thismanuscript.TAXONOMIC NOTESI. Chirosaurus Kaup, though a moreappropriate name, is unfortunately a juniorobjective synonym of Chirotherium Kaup:'Cheirosaurus' and 'Cheirotherium' arevariant spellings employed by Beasley andothers from time to time.11. Chirotherium (= Chirosaurus)storetonensis Morton is considered by Haubold(1971, p.55) to be a junior subjectivesynonym of Chirotherium barthii Kaup .However, since no restudy of the holotype ofMorton's species has been made, I am notprepared as yet to accept this synonymization.111. Chirotherium majus Sickler is likewiseconsidered by Haubold (1971, p.55) to be ajunior subjective synonym of ~hirotheriumbarthii.IV. Chirotherium minus Sickler is consideredby Haubold (1971, p.55) to be a juniorsubjective synonym of Chirotherium sickleriKaup.V. Chelone? subrotundus Morton is consideredby Haubold (1971, p.41) to be a juniorsubjective synonym of Dicvnodontipus geinitzi .(Hornstein) Haubold.However, until theholotype of Morton's genus is re-examined,this judgement must remain disputable.V1. Brontozoum Hitchcock, 1847 is consideredby Haubold (1971, p.75) to be a juniorsubjective synonym of Eubrontes Hitchcock,1845.V11. Ichnium gampsodactylum gampsodactylumPabst, 1, gampsodactylum gracilis Pabst, 1,g. albendorfense Pabst, I. g. minor Pabst,and I. g. friedrichrodanum Pabst have beenthe subject of much taxonomic controversy.When Gampsodactylum was elevated to genericstatus by Nopcsa (1923, p. 138). two species,-G. albendorfense and G. friedrichrodanum ,were distinguished: the subspecies gracilisand minor were both placed within the former.Kuhn (1963) retained these two ichnospecies(pp.25-26) but also treated them, on anotherpage, as junior subjective synonyms ofEumekichnium lacertoides (Geinitz, 1861)Nopcsa. Haubold (1971) treated both theseichnogenera (Gampsodactylum and Eumekichnium)as junior subjective synonyms of DromopusMarsh and the subspecies gracilis and minoras junior subjective synonyms of D.lacertoides (Geinitz) Marsh; his opinion onthe placement of Gampsodactylum albendorfenseand c. friedrichrodanum is unclear.
VIII. Whilst pachydactvlum minusPabst and 1, p. albendorfense Pabst arevalidly published subspecies, 1. p.irregulatum' does not exist and must beconsidered a product of an orthographicerror. I have not been able to placeBeasley's card alongside Pabst's text and socannot determine which subspecies was meant.Kuhn (1963) treated both subspecies as juniorsubjective synonyms of Ichniotheriumleisnerianum (Geinitz) Kuhn. In contrast,Haubold (1971, p.20) treated them as juniorsubjective synonyms, not of I. leisnerianum(which he transferred to Dimetropus Romer andPrice, as g. leisnerianus) but of his ownichnospecies Amphisauropus imminutus. (Thisis a perfectly correct taxonomic procedure.since Pabst's ichnotaxa, though senior, weremere subspecies and a name does not havepriority outside its own taxonomic rank). Afuller study of the morphology and taxonomyof these ichnospecies is desirable to clarifywhich alternative placement is preferable.REFERENCESBEASLEY, H.C. 1913. Notes on a map of thefaults in the neighbourhood ofStoreton made by the late Mr G.H.Morton, F.G .S. Proc. Lpool geol. Soc.11, 311-316, p1.12 (folding map).H., W. 1920. Henry Charles Beasley. m.a. 57, 94-95.HAUBOLD, H. 1971. Ichnia amphibiorum etreptiliorum fossilium. In KUHN, 0.(ed.). Handbuch &r Herpetologie,Pt.18. 124oo.. 65 figs.. 7 tabs.~usta; a hischer V&lag, Stuttgart.Germany and Portland, U .S .A.KUHN. 0. 1963. Ichnia tetranodorum. InIVESTPIIAI., l:. (erl.). '~ossiliumCatalogus. I. Animolin, Pt.101.176vv. dunk: s8Gruvenhuge, Netherlands.MORTON, -&.H. 1883. IJescripti;n of a geologicalmap of the Storeton quarries,Cheshire. Proc. Lpool geol. Soc. 4,4nfi-4117. . . . ..SARJEANT, W .A.S. 1971. The Beasley Collectionof photographs and nriwings of fossilfootprints and boncs and of fossil andrecent sedimentary structures.Privatelv oublished. Nottingham. 3 8 ~ ~ .~~imited ebition of ioo copiZsl.SARJEANT, W.A.S. 1974. A history andbiblioeranhv of the studv of fossilverteGraie kootprints in ihe BritishIsles. Palaeogeog. Palaeoclimatol.Palaeoecol. 16, 265-378, figs.1-34.SARJEANT, W.A.S. 1984. British fossilfootprints in the collections of someprincipal British museums. The<strong>Geological</strong> Curator, 3, 541-560.William A.S. SarjeantRoom 108.3 (<strong>Geological</strong> Sciences)General Purpose BuildingUniversity of SaskatchewanSaskatoon, Canada S7N OWOTypescript received 27 August 1984
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