Iranosauripus

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Iranosauripus
Temporal range: Late Triassic – Early Jurassic, 201.6–182.7  Ma
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Ichnogenus: Iranosauripus
Lapparent & Nowgol Sadat, 1975
Type ichnospecies
†Iranosauripus zerabensis
Lapparent & Nogwol Sadat, 1975
Synonyms
  • IranosaurusLapparent & Nogwol Sadat, 1975

Iranosauripus is an ichnogenus of dinosaur footprint found in the Shemshak Group of Iran that supposedly belonged to a theropod. [1] Iranosauripus supposedly existed during Middle Triassic to Early Jurassic, [2] [3] although the first true dinosaurs, such as Eoraptor , did not exist until the Late Triassic; [4] the age of the specimens has since been refined to 201.6 to 183.0 Ma and further to 182.7 Ma. [5]

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Discovery and naming

The first known footprints were discovered in 1975 in the Shemshak Group in the Alborz Mountains of Iran by Albert-Félix de Lapparent and M. A. Nowgol Sadat, and the type ichnospecies, I. zerabensis was also named in 1975. [6] Abbassi (2014) described more specimens. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ M. T. Carrano. (2020). Taxonomic opinions on the Dinosauria .
  2. ↑ P. Taquet. (1977). Les découvertes récentes de Dinosaures du Jurassique et du Crétacé en Afrique, au Proche et Moyen-Orient et en Inde [Recent discoveries of dinosaurs from the Jurassic and Cretaceous in Africa, the Near and Middle East, and India]. Mémoire Hors Serie—Société Géologique de France 8:325-330
  3. ↑ Glut, Donald F. (2003). "Appendix: Dinosaur Tracks and Eggs" . Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia (3rd supplement ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp.  613–652. ISBN   0-7864-1166-X.
  4. ↑ Brusatte, Stephen L.; Benton, Michael J.; Ruta, Marcello; Lloyd, Graeme T. (September 12, 2008). "Superiority, Competition, and Opportunism in the Evolutionary Radiation of Dinosaurs" (PDF). Science. 321 (5895). Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science: 1485–1488. Bibcode:2008Sci...321.1485B. doi:10.1126/science.1161833. hdl: 20.500.11820/00556baf-6575-44d9-af39-bdd0b072ad2b . ISSN   0036-8075. PMID   18787166. S2CID   13393888 . Retrieved 2019-10-22.
  5. 1 2 N. Abbassi, (2014). Dinosaur tracks from the Jurassic Shemshak Group in the central Alborz Mountains (northern Iran). Geologica Carpathica (65), 99-115 (journal article, English)
  6. ↑ A. F. d.e. Lapparent and M. A. A. Nowgol Sadat. (1975). Une trace à pas de Dinosaure dans le Lias de l’Elbourz, en Iran. Conséquences de cette découverte [A dinosaur footprints in the Liassic of Elbourz, in Iran. Consequences of this discovery]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série D 280:161-163
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