Genus
Ichnogenus Formal taxon Extinct

Wintonopus

Thulborn and Wade 1984

Wintonopus is an ichnogenus of dinosaur footprint. Its footprints have been found at Lark Quarry in Queensland Australia. The genus is named after the Winton Formation in which the tracks were found. Other tracks were found in the Broome Sandstone of Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
16
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Wintonopus
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Wintonopus latomorum cast in Natural History Museum. © FunkMonk · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Neornithischia Unranked clade
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Pyrodontia Unranked clade
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Cerapoda Unranked clade
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Ornithopoda Suborder
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Wintonopus Genus
Fossil sites 16 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇦🇺 Australia
13
🇨🇳 China
2
🇵🇱 Poland
1
Geological formations
Broome Sandstone
6
Winton
6
Anning
2
Przysucha
1
Razorback Beds
1
Temporal distribution
Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)
6
Hauterivian (132.6–125.77 Ma)
6
Kimmeridgian (154.8–149.2 Ma)
2
Sinemurian (199.5–192.9 Ma)
1
Hettangian (201.4–199.5 Ma)
1
Species (3)
Skartopus australis subjective synonym of Wintonopus latomorum 137 Ma
Wintonopus latomorum 137 Ma
Wintonopus middletonae 137 Ma
Synonyms (1)
Skartopus subjective synonym of Wintonopus
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
R. A. Thulborn and M. Wade. 1984. Dinosaur trackways in the Winton Formation (mid-Cretaceous) of Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 21(2):413-517
Bibliography (6)
S. F. Poropat, M. A. White, and T. Ziegler, A. H. Pentland, S. L. Rigby, R. J. Duncan, T. Sloan, D. A. Elliot. 2021. A diverse Late Cretaceous vertebrate tracksite from the Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia. PeerJ 9:e11544:1-87 DOI ↗
S. W. Salisbury, A. Romilio, and M. C. Herne, R. T. Tucker, J. P. Nair. 2016. The Dinosaurian Ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Walmadany Area (James Price Point), Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 16. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(6, suppl.):1-152 DOI ↗
L.-D. Xing, M. G. Lockley, and H. Klein, J.-P. Zhang, T. Wang, W. S. Persons, Z.-M. Dong. 2016. A tetrapod footprint assemblage with possible swim traces from the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary, Anning Formation, Konglongshan, Yunnan, China. Palaeoworld 25:444-452 DOI ↗
A. G. Cook, N. Saini, and S. A. Hocknull. 2010. Dinosaur footprints from the lower Jurassic of Mount Morgan, Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum—Nature 55(1):135-146
G. Gierlinski and G. Pienkowski. 1999. Dinosaur track assemblages from the Hettangian of Poland. Geological Quarterly 43(3):329-346
R. A. Thulborn and M. Wade. 1984. Dinosaur trackways in the Winton Formation (mid-Cretaceous) of Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 21(2):413-517