Carmelopodus

Carmelopodus
Temporal range: Jurassic (Hettangian to Kimmeridgian) 201.4–149.2 Ma
Footprint referred to the ichnogenus Carmelopodus (Loulle)
Trace fossil classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Ichnogenus: †Carmelopodus
Lockley, Hunt, Paquette, Bilbey & Hamblin, 1998
Type ichnospecies
†Carmelopodus untermannorum
Lockley et al. 1998

Carmelopodus is an ichnogenus of theropod dinosaur footprint.[1] They are suggested to belong to basal ceratosaurs, due to their similarities with abelisaurid footprints. In 2016, a large footprint from the Early Jurassic Aganane Formation of Morocco belonging to Carmelopodus sp. was estimated to belong to an 8 m (26 ft) long and 1.65 t (1.82 short tons) heavy individual.[2] Another footprint from the Middle Jurassic of the USA that belongs to Carmelopodus untermannorum, the type species, has a size of 4 cm (0.13 ft) and was made by an individual that was 68 cm (2.2 ft) in length and 1 kg (2.2 lbs).[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ G. D. Gierlinski, G. Niedzwiedzki, P. Nowacki (2009). "Small theropod and ornithopod footprints in the Late Jurassic of Poland". Acta Geologica Polonica. 59 (2): 221–234.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ a b Molina-Pérez & Larramendi (2016). Récords y curiosidades de los dinosaurios Terópodos y otros dinosauromorfos. Spain: Larousse. p. 26.

Further reading

  • G. Gierlinski and G. Pienkowski. 1999. Dinosaur track assemblages from the Hettangian of Poland. Geological Quarterly 43(3):329-346;
  • M. M. Romero Molina, F. Pérez-Lorente, and P. Rivas Carrera. 2003. Análisis de la parataxonomía utilizada con las huellas de dinosaurio [Analysis of the parataxonomy used with dinosaur footprints]. In F. Pérez Lorente (ed.), Dinosaurios y Otros Reptiles Mesozóicos de España 13–32;
  • J. S. Tweet, V. L. Santucci, T. Connors and J. P. Kenworthy. 2012. Paleontological Resource Inventory and Monitoring: Northern Colorado Plateau Network. National Park Service Technical Report NPS/NCPN/NRTR—2012/585 xii-524;
  • J.-M. Mazin, P. Hantzpergue, and J. Pouech. 2016. The dinosaur tracksite of Loulle (early Kimmeridgian; Jura, France). Geobios 49(3):211-228.


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