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]
| Iranosauripus Temporal range: Late Triassic – Early Jurassic, | |
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Trace fossil classification  | |
| Ichnogenus: | Iranosauripus Lapparent & Nowgol Sadat, 1975 |
| Type ichnospecies | |
| †Iranosauripus zerabensis Lapparent & Nogwol Sadat, 1975 | |
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Discovery and naming
editThe 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]
See also
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References
edit- ↑ M. T. Carrano. (2020). Taxonomic opinions on the Dinosauria.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- 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)
- ↑ 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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