Unranked clade
Ichnogenus Formal taxon Extinct

Tyrannosauripodidae

McCrea et al. 2014

Tyrannosauripodidae is an ichnofamily of dinosaur footprints.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
3
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Tyrannosauripodidae
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Tyrannosauripus pillmorei, probable Tyrannosaurus footprint from w:Philmont Scout Ranch, New Mexico © Rufous-crowned Sparrow · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Tetanurae Unranked clade
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Coelurosauria Unranked clade
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Tyrannosauroidea Superfamily
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Tyrannosauridae Family
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Tyrannosauripodidae Unranked clade
Fossil sites 3 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
1
🇨🇦 Canada
1
🇺🇸 United States
1
Geological formations
Hekou
1
Wapiti
1
Raton
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
1
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
1
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
1
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
R. T. McCrea, L. G. Buckley, and J. O. Farlow, M. G. Lockley, P. J. Currie, N. A. Matthews, S. G. Pemberton. 2014. A ‘terror of tyrannosaurs’: the first trackways of tyrannosaurids and evidence of gregariousness and pathology in Tyrannosauridae. PLoS ONE 9(7):e103613:1-13 DOI ↗
Bibliography (3)
L. Xing, K. Niu, and M. G. Lockley, H. Klein, A. Romilio, W. S. Persons, S. L. Brusatte. 2019. A probable tyrannosaurid track from the Upper Cretaceous of southern China. Science Bulletin 64(16):1136-1139 DOI ↗
R. T. McCrea, L. G. Buckley, and J. O. Farlow, M. G. Lockley, P. J. Currie, N. A. Matthews, S. G. Pemberton. 2014. A ‘terror of tyrannosaurs’: the first trackways of tyrannosaurids and evidence of gregariousness and pathology in Tyrannosauridae. PLoS ONE 9(7):e103613:1-13 DOI ↗
M. G. Lockley and A. P. Hunt. 1994. A track of the giant theropod dinosaur Tyrannosaurus from close to the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary, northern New Mexico. Ichnos 3:213-218 DOI ↗