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The ichnogenus Thalassinoides: burrow fossil produced by crustaceans from the Middle Jurassic, Makhtesh Qatan, southern Israel. An ichnotaxon (plural ichnotaxa) is "a taxon based on the fossilized work of an organism", i.e. the non-human equivalent of an artifact.
Ichniotherium (meaning "marking creature") is an ichnogenus of tetrapod footprints from between the Late Carboniferous period to the Early Permian period attributed to diadectomorph track-makers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] These footprints are commonly found in Europe , and have also been identified in North America and Morocco .
The most promising cases of phylogenetic classification are those in which similar trace fossils show details complex enough to deduce the makers, such as bryozoan borings, large trilobite trace fossils such as Cruziana, and vertebrate footprints. However, most trace fossils lack sufficiently complex details to allow such classification.
The lack of claws and scales suggest that these footprints were made by large amphibians, being often attributed to eryopid temnospondyls. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The lack of belly and tail marks in the sediment indicates that the producer raised most of its body when walking and had a short or non-dragging tail.
Anticheiropus is an ichnogenus of dinosaur footprint belonging to a saurischian. [1] It has only been discovered in Massachusetts (Portland Formation, Newark Supergroup).Two ichnospecies are known (both are known from a single footprint): [2] [3] A. hamatus and A. pilulatus, both discovered around 1863 and named by Edward Hitchcock in 1865.
There have been disagreements about whether the North American D. agilis represents a separate ichnospecies. [5] More recently, based on the fact that there is no satisfactory anatomical diagnosis distinguishing various ichnospecies of Dromopus, only the type ichnospecies D. lacertoides has been agreed to be valid. [1] [6]
Parabrontopodus is an ichnogenus of dinosaur footprint, that was initially described by Lockley et al. in 1994, [1] and was assigned to Sauropoda by Lockley in 2002 and in 2004 by Niedzwiedzki and Pienkowski. Various species through their footprints that are characterized by the association of two impressions left by hand and foot.
The confusing history of dinosaur footprints means many kinds of theropod tracks have been put into the Megalosauripus ichnogenus, [4] even though they were an entirely different ichnospecies. This makes it hard to piece together what exactly is Megalosauripus , and what is not.