Dimetropus

Dimetropus
Temporal range: Permian-Triassic
Dimetropus
Trace fossil classification Edit this classification
Ichnogenus: †Dimetropus
Romber and Price 1940
Ichnospecies
  • D. leisnerianus Geinitz 1863
  • D. latus Heyler and Montenat 1980

Dimetropus is a synapsid ichnogenus commonly found in assemblages of ichnofossils dating to the Permian to Triassic in Europe and North America. Analysis of trackways of Dimetropus provides evidence that the tracks were left by diadectids or non-therapsid synapsids ("pelycosaurs").

Orléans - MOBE 12

References

  1. 1 2 Lucas, Spencer G.; Lerner, Allan J.; Haubold, Hartmut (2001). "First record of Amphisauropus and Varanopus in the Lower Permian Abo Formation, central New Mexico". Hallesches Jahrb. Geowiss B. 29: 69–78. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.503.8731. {{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |citeseerx= (help)
  2. 1 2 Ptaszyński, T.; Niedźwiedzki, G. (2004). "Late Permian vertebrate tracks from the Tumlin Sandstone, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 49 (2): 289–320. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  3. ↑ Voigt, Sebastian; Berman, David S; Henrici, Amy C. (12 September 2007). "First well-established track-trackmaker association of paleozoic tetrapods based on Ichniotherium trackways and diadectid skeletons from the Lower Permian of Germany". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (3): 553–570. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[553:FWTAOP]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 131256847.
  4. ↑ Romano, Marco; Citton, Paolo; Nicosia, Umberto (January 2016). "Corroborating trackmaker identification through footprint functional analysis: the case study of Ichniotherium and Dimetropus". Lethaia. 49 (1): 102–116. Bibcode:2016Letha..49..102R. doi:10.1111/let.12136.