Deltapodus
| Deltapodus Temporal range:
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Trace fossil classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Suborder: | †Stegosauria |
| Ichnogenus: | †Deltapodus Whyte & Romano, 1994 |
Deltapodus is an ichnogenus of footprint produced by a stegosaurian dinosaur[1] According to the main Stegosauria article:
- "Purported stegosaurian dermal plate was reported from the latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Kallamedu Formation (southern India); however, Galton & Ayyasami (2017) interpreted the specimen as a bone of a sauropod dinosaur. Nevertheless, the authors considered the survival of stegosaurians into the Maastrichtian to be possible, noting the presence of the stegosaurian ichnotaxon Deltapodus in the Maastrichtian Lameta Formation (western India).[2]".
It is known from the Lourinhã Formation of Portugal,[3] Spain, from the Tugulu Group China,[4] Morocco and United Kingdom.
Deltapodus includes three ichnospecies: D. ibericus, D. curriei, and D. brodricki. It has been suggested that Deltapodus curriei may be registrations by Wuerhosaurus stegosaurs.[4]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Belvedere, M.; Mietto, P. (2010). "First evidence of stegosaurian Deltapodus footprints in North Africa (Iouaridène Formation, Upper Jurassic, Morocco)". Palaeontology. 53: 233–240. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00928.x.
- ^ Peter M. Galton; Krishnan Ayyasami (2017). "Purported latest bone of a plated dinosaur (Ornithischia: Stegosauria), a "dermal plate" from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of southern India". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 285 (1): 91–96. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2017/0671.
- ^ Mateus, Octávio; Milàn, Jesper; Romano, Michael; Whyte, Martin A. (September 2011). "New Finds of Stegosaur Tracks from the Upper Jurassic Lourinhã Formation, Portugal". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 56 (3): 651–658. doi:10.4202/app.2009.0055.
- ^ a b Xing, Lida; Lockley, Martin G.; Persons, W. Scott; Klein, Hendrik; Romilio, Anthony; Wang, Donghao; Wang, Miaoyan (2021-02-28). "STEGOSAUR TRACK ASSEMBLAGE FROM XINJIANG, CHINA, FEATURING THE SMALLEST KNOWN STEGOSAUR RECORD". PALAIOS. 36 (2): 68–76. doi:10.2110/palo.2020.036. ISSN 0883-1351.
Further reading[]
- Glut, Donald F. (2003). "Appendix: Dinosaur Tracks and Eggs". Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia. 3rd Supplement. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 613–652. ISBN 978-0-7864-1166-5.
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