Carmelopodus

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Carmelopodus
Temporal range: Jurassic (Hettangian to Kimmeridgian) 201.4–149.2  Ma
Loulle dinosaur tracks site - Little theropod tracks 01.JPG
Footprint referred to the ichnogenus Carmelopodus (Loulle)
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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 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]

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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. 1 2 Molina-Pérez & Larramendi (2016). Récords y curiosidades de los dinosaurios Terópodos y otros dinosauromorfos. Spain: Larousse. p. 26.

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