Genus
Valid Extinct

Sauropus

Hitchcock 1845

Breynia is a genus in the flowering plant family Phyllanthaceae, first described in 1776. It is native to Southeast Asia, China, Réunion, the Indian Subcontinent, Papuasia and Australia.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
8
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Sauropus
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Breynia disticha (habit). Location: Maui, Kahului © Forest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Sauropodidae Family
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Sauropus Genus
Fossil sites 8 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
8
Geological formations
Portland
6
Passaic
1
Turners Falls
1
Temporal distribution
Sinemurian (199.5–192.9 Ma)
6
Hettangian (201.4–199.5 Ma)
1
Norian (227.3–205.7 Ma)
1
Species (2)
Sauropus barrattii 201 Ma
Sauropus ingens 227 Ma
Synonyms (3)
Aethyopus subjective synonym of Sauropus
Chimaera subjective synonym of Sauropus
Chimaerichnus subjective synonym of Sauropus
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
E. Hitchcock. 1845. An attempt to name, classify, and describe, the animals that made the fossil footmarks of New England. Sixth Annual Meeeting of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, New Haven, CT. Abstract and Proceedings
Bibliography (5)
R. S. Lull. 1915. Triassic life of the Connecticut Valley. State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin 24:1-285 DOI ↗
C. H. Hitchcock. 1889. Recent progress in ichnology. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 24(8):117-127
C. H. Hitchcock. 1865. Appendix [B]. Descriptive catalogue of the specimens in the Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet of Amherst College. Supplement to the Ichnology of New England. A Report to the Government of Massachusetts in 1863
E. Hitchcock. 1858. Ichnology of New England. A Report on the Sandstone of the Connecticut Valley, Especially its Fossil Footmarks, Made to the Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts DOI ↗
E. Hitchcock. 1841. Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts DOI ↗