Carmelopodus is an ichnogenus of theropod dinosaur footprint. They are suggested to belong to basal ceratosaurs, due to their similarities with abelisaurid footprints. In 2016, a large footprint from the Early Jurassic Aganane Formation of Morocco belonging to Carmelopodus sp. was estimated to belong to an 8m (26ft) long and 1.65t (1.82 short tons) heavy individual. Another footprint from the Middle Jurassic of the USA that belongs to Carmelopodus untermannorum, the type species, has a size of 4cm (0.13ft) and was made by an individual that was 68cm (2.2ft) in length and 1kg (2.2lbs).

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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

  • Glut, Donald F. (2003). . . Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp.. ISBN0-7864-1166-X.