Deltapodus

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]".

Deltapodus
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic–Late Cretaceous
Trace fossil classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: †Ornithischia
Suborder: †Stegosauria
Ichnogenus: †Deltapodus
Whyte & Romano, 1994

It is known from the Lourinhã Formation of Portugal, Spain, China, Morocco and United Kingdom.[3]

Deltapodus includes three ichnospecies: D. ibericus, D. curriei, and D. brodricki.

See also

References
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

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