Classification
Dinosauria
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Theropoda
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Eubrontidae
Famille
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Megalosauripus
Genre
Sites de découverte 65 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
Formations géologiques
Distribution temporelle
Cénomanien
(100.5–93.9 Ma)
1
Aptien
(121.4–113.2 Ma)
5
Barrémien
(125.77–121.4 Ma)
3
Hauterivien
(132.6–125.77 Ma)
3
Valanginien
(137.05–132.6 Ma)
3
Berriasien
(143.1–137.05 Ma)
5
Tithonien
(149.2–143.1 Ma)
2
Kimméridgien
(154.8–149.2 Ma)
18
Oxfordian
(161.5–154.8 Ma)
15
Callovien
(165.3–161.5 Ma)
3
Bathonien
(168.2–165.3 Ma)
6
Hettangien
(201.4–199.5 Ma)
1
Espèces (6)
Bueckeburgichnus maximus
139 Ma
Chodjapilesaurus krimholzi
158 Ma
Synonymes (5)
Bueckeburgichnus
subjective synonym of Megalosauripus
Chodjapilesaurus
subjective synonym of Megalosauripus
Karkushosauropus
subjective synonym of Megalosauripus
Megalosauropus
subjective synonym of Megalosauripus
Turkmenosaurus
subjective synonym of Megalosauripus
Images 6
Bibliographie
Description originale
M. G. Lockley, C. A. Meyer, and V. F. Santos. 2000. Megalosauripus and the problematic concept of megalosaur footprints. GAIA 15:313-337
Bibliographie (35)
T. Blakesley, P. E. dePolo, and T. J. Wade, D. A. Ross, S. L. Brusatte. 2025. A new Middle Jurassic lagoon margin assemblage of theropod and sauropod dinosaur trackways from the Isle of Skye, Scotland. PLoS ONE 20(4):e0319862:1-67
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T. Blakesley, P. E. dePolo, and D. A. Ross, N. D. L. Clark, S. L. Brusatte. 2025. Small theropod-dominated dinosaur footprint assemblages in the Middle Jurassic Valtos Sandstone and Kilmaluag Formations on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Royal Society Open Science 12(9):251016:1-57
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M. Yurac, M. Belvedere, and C. Salazar, J. Méndez, C. Meyer. 2025. Upper Jurassic dinosaur tracks from the Majala Formation in the Huatacondo area (Tarapacá Basin, Chile): reappraisal of known localities and new tracksite discoveries. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144(1):72:1-25
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S. D. Figueiredo, P. P. Cunha, and X. Pereda Suberbiola, C. N. de Carvalho, I. d. S. Carvalho, E. Buffetaut, H. Tong, M. Fernanda Sousa, V. Antunes, R. Anastácio. 2022. The dinosaur tracksite from the lower Barremian of Areia do Mastro Formation (Cabo Espichel, Portugal): implications for dinosaur behavior. Cretaceous Research 137:105219
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J. Minguez Ceniceros, J. O. Farlow, and M. Masrour, J. I. Extremiana, M. Boutakiout, F. Pérez-Lorente. 2022. Demographic interpretation of colossal theropod footprints discoveries from Imilchil (Mid-Jurassic, Central High Atlas, Morocco). Journal of African Earth Sciences
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G. Leonardi and I. d. S. Carvalho. 2021. Dinosaur Tracks from Brazil: A Lost World of Gondwana
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C. N. d. Carvalho. 2020. Notícia sobre a descoberta de pegadas de dinossáurios no Jurássico da Praia de Pedrógão [Note on a discovery of dinosaur footprints in the Jurassic of Praia de Pedrógão]. Boletim do Centro Português de Geo-História e Pré-História 2(1):11-16
D. Castanera, E. Malafaia, and B. C. Silva, V. F. Santos, M. Belvedere. 2020. New dinosaur, crocodylomorph and swim tracks from the Late Jurassic of the Lusitanian Basin: implications for ichnodiversity. Lethaia 54:271-287
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D. Marty, M. Belvedere, and N. L. Razzolini, M. G. Lockley, G. Paratte, M. Cattin, C. Lovis, C. A. Meyer. 2018. The tracks of giant theropods (Jurabrontes curtedulensis ichnogen. & ichnosp. nov.) from the Late Jurassic of NW Switzerland: palaeoecological & palaeogeographical implications. Historical Biology 30:928-956
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O. W. M. Rauhut, L. Piñuela, and D. Castanera, J.-C. García-Ramos, I. Sánchez Cela. 2018. The largest European theropod dinosaurs: remains of a gigantic megalosaurid and giant theropod tracks from the Kimmeridgian of Asturias, Spain. PeerJ 6:e4963:1-34
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N. L. Razzolini, M. Belvedere, and D. Marty, G. Paratte, C. Lovis, M. Cattin, C. A. Meyer. 2017. Megalosauripus transjuranicus ichnosp. nov. A new Late Jurassic theropod ichnotaxon from NW Switzerland and implications for tridactyl dinosaur ichnology and ichnotaxomy. PLoS ONE 12(7):e0180289:1-42
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D. Castanera, I. Díaz-Martínez, and M. Moreno-Azanza, J. I. Canudo, J. M. Gasca. 2016. An overview of the Lower Cretaceous dinosaur tracksites from the Mirambel Formation in the Iberian Range (NE Spain). Cretaceous Period: Biotic Diversity and Biogeography. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 71:65-74
N. L. Razzolini, O. Oms, and D. Castanera, B. Vila, V. F. dos Santos, À. Galobart. 2016. Ichnological evidence of megalosaurid dinosaurs crossing Middle Jurassic tidal flats. Scientific Reports 6(31494):1-15
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J. Hernán and J. J. Moratalla. 2015. Estudio estratigráfico y de facies del yacimiento de icnitas de dinosaurios Sol de la Pita 1 en el Cretácico Inferior de la Cuenca de Cameros (Préjano, La Rioja, España) [Stratigraphic and facies study of the dinosaur tracksite Sol de la Pita 1 from the Lower Cretaceous of the Cameros Basin (Préjano, La Rioja, Spain)]. Boletín Geológico y Minero 125(4):437-454
F. Pérez-Lorente. 2015. Dinosaur Footprints and Trackways of La Rioja
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L. Xing, J. Zhang, and H. Klein, A. Mayor, Y. Chen, H. Dai, M. E. Burns, J. Gao, Y. Tang, S. Dong. 2015. Dinosaur tracks, myths and buildings: the Jin Ji (Golden Chicken) stones from Zizhou area, northern Shaanxi, China. Ichnos 22(3–4):227-234
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R. T. McCrea, L. G. Buckley, and A. G. Plint, P. J. Currie, J. W. Haggart, C. W. Helm, S. G. Pemberton. 2014. A review of vertebrate track-bearing formations from the Mesozoic and earliest Cenozoic of western Canada with a description of a new theropod ichnospecies and reassignment of an avian ichnogenus. Fossil Footprints of Western North America. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 62:5-94
M. Belvedere, N.-E. Jalil, and A. Breda, G. Gattolin, H. Bourget, F. Khaldoune, G. J. Dyke. 2013. Vertebrate footprints from the Kem Kem beds (Morocco): a novel ichnological approach to faunal reconstruction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 383-384:52-58
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L. Xing, A. Mayor, and Y. Chen, J. D. Harris, M. E. Burns. 2011. The folklore of dinosaur trackways in China: impact on paleontology. Ichnos 18(4):213-220
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J. I. Canudo, J. L. Barco, and G. Cuenca-Bescós, J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2005. Presence of two different theropod footprints in the Valaginian-Hauterivian (Lower Cretaceous) of Villanueva de Huerva (Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain). International Symposium on Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates Palaeoichnology. Abstract Book
C. A. Meyer and B. Thüring. 2005. Mind the “Middle Jurassic” gap—bone versus track record in dinosaurs. 3rd Geoscience Meeting, Zurich
J. I. Barco, J. I. Canudo, and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2004. Presencia de la icnoasociación Megalosauripus-Therangospondus en el Barremiense (Cretácico inferior) de la Península Ibérica (Cuenca de Cameros, Soria): implicaciones paleobiogeograficas [Presence of the Megalosauripus-Therangospondus ichnoassociation in the Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of the Iberian peninsula (Cameros Basin, Soria): paleobiogeographic implications]. Geo-Temas 6(5):15-18
C. Diedrich. 2004. New important iguanodontid and theropod trackways of the tracksite Obernkirchen in the Berriasian of NW Germany and megatracksite concept of central Europe. Ichnos 11(3-4):215-228
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G. Gierlinski and G. Niedzwiedzki. 2002. Dinosaur footprints from the Upper Jurassic of Blaziny, Poland. Geological Quarterly 46(4):463-465
G. Gierlinski, G. Niedzwiedzki, and G. Pienkowski. 2001. Gigantic footprint of a theropod dinosaur in the Early Jurassic of Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 46(3):441-446
M. G. Lockley, J. L. Wright, and W. Langston, Jr, E. S. West. 2001. New pterosaur track specimens and tracksites in the Late Jurassic of Oklahoma and Colorado: their paleobiological significance and regional ichnological context. Modern Geology 24:179-203
J. J. Day, A. C. Burton, and D. B. Norman. 2000. New Middle Jurassic dinosaur trackways from Oxfordshire, UK. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(3 (suppl.)):38A
J. R. Foster, A. H. Hamblin, and M. G. Lockley. 2000. The oldest evidence of a sauropod dinosaur in the western United States and other important vertebrate trackways from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah. Ichnos 7(3):169-181
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M. G. Lockley, S. G. Lucas, and A. P. Hunt. 2000. Dinosaur tracksites in New Mexico: a review. Dinosaurs of New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 7:9-16
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C. A. Meyer. 1998. Jura- und kreidezeitliehe Dinosaurierfährten aus Zentral-Asien (Usbekistan, Turkmenistan) [Jurassic and Cretaceous dinosaur tracks from Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan)]. Natur und Museum 128(12):393-402
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