Carmelopodus Explained
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 8m (26feet) long and 1.65t 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).
See also
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
- Book: Glut, Donald F. . Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia. 3rd Supplement . 2003 . McFarland & Company, Inc. . Jefferson, North Carolina . 0-7864-1166-X . Appendix: Dinosaur Tracks and Eggs . 613–652 . registration . https://archive.org/details/dinosaursencyclo00glut_2 .
Notes and References
- 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.
- Book: Molina-Pérez & Larramendi. Récords y curiosidades de los dinosaurios Terópodos y otros dinosauromorfos. Larousse. 2016. Spain. 26.
