Caririchnium

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Caririchnium
Caririchnium leonardii (dinosaur track) (Dakota Sandstone, Lower Cretaceous; Dinosaur Ridge, Colorado, USA) 5.jpg
C. leonardii specimen from Dinosaur Ridge, Colorado
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Ornithopoda
Ichnofamily: Iguanodontipodidae
Ichnogenus: Caririchnium
Leonardi, 1984

Caririchnium is an ichnogenus of ornithopod dinosaur footprint, [1] belonging to either derived iguanodonts or basal hadrosauroids. [2] It includes the species Caririchnium lotus from Lower Cretaceous Jiaguan Formation and C. protohadrosaurichnos from Upper Cretaceous Woodbine Formation. [3] [4] Specimens are also known from the Lower Cretaceous El Castellar Formation and Camarillas Formations. [5]

The trackmaker was probably a large styracosternan related to Iguanodon . [5]

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