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Dimetropus

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Dimetropus
Temporal range: Permian-Triassic
Dimetropus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Ichnogenus: Dimetropus
Romber and Price 1940
Ichnospecies
  • D. leisnerianus Geinitz 1863
  • D. latus Heyler and Montenat 1980

Dimetropus is a reptile ichnogenus commonly found in assemblages of ichnofossils dating to the Permian[1] to Triassic[2] in Europe[2][3] and North America.[1] Analysis of trackways of Dimetropus provides evidence that the tracks were left by diadectids or non-therapsid synapsids ("pelycosaurs").[4]

Orléans - MOBE 12

References

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  1. ^ a b 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.
  2. ^ a b 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.