Genus
Ichnogenus Formal taxon Extinct

Eutynichnium

(Nopcsa 1923)

Eutynichnium is an ichnogenus of dinosaur footprint.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
3
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Eutynichnium
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Lower Triassic fossil footprint (ichnite) of the ichnogenus Chirotherium, probably caused by an early archosaur, and first discovered 1833 in Hildburghausen (Thuringia, Germany). This specimen, however, ist from the Helsby Sandstone of the Storeton Quarry near Liverpool. Its species name is Chirotherium storetonense.[1] © Ballista · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Eutynichnium Genus
Fossil sites 3 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇵🇹 Portugal
2
🇩🇿 Algeria
1
Geological formations
Vale Verde
1
Tiloula
1
Ladeiras
1
Temporal distribution
Hauterivian (132.6–125.77 Ma)
1
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
1
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
1
Species (4)
Eutynichnium atlasicus
Eutynichnium atlasipodus nomen nudum, species not entered Eutynichnium
Eutynichnium lusitanicum 162 Ma
Megalosauropus (Eutynichnium) gomesi 133 Ma
Synonyms (1)
Eutynichnium atlasipodus nomen nudum, species not entered Eutynichnium
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
B. F. Nopcsa. 1923. Die Familien der Reptilien [The families of reptiles]. Forschritte der Geologie und Palaeontologie. Verlag von Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin 2:1-210
Bibliography (3)
M. Bessedik, C. Mammeri, and L. Belkebir, M. Mahboubi. 2020. Les empreintes de pieds tri et tetradactyles de dinosaures (Rhétien-Hettangien à Cénomanien) de l’Atlas saharien (Algérie) [Tri- and tetradactyl dinosaur footprints (Rhaetian–Hettangian to Cenomanian) from the Saharan Atlas (Algeria)]. Mémoire du service géologique de l’Algérie 21:29-50
M. T. Antunes. 1976. Dinossáurios Eocretácicos de Lagosteiros [Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Lagosteiros]. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Ciências da Terra 1:1-35
B. F. Nopcsa. 1923. Die Familien der Reptilien [The families of reptiles]. Forschritte der Geologie und Palaeontologie. Verlag von Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin 2:1-210