Carmelopodus

Carmelopodus Temporal range: Jurassic (Hettangian to Kimmeridgian) 201.4–149.2  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Footprint referred to the ichnogenus Carmelopodus (Loulle)
Trace fossil 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

• Dinosaurs portal
• Paleontology portal

• List of dinosaur ichnogenera

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.
2. 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.

External links

• Glut, Donald F. (2003). "Appendix: Dinosaur Tracks and Eggs" . Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia. 3rd Supplement. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp.  613–652. ISBN   0-7864-1166-X.