Synaptichnium diabloensis Peabody 1948

Reptilia - Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae

Alternative combinations: Chirotherium diabloensis, Chirotherium diablonense, Synaptichnium diabloense

Full reference: F. E. Peabody. 1948. Reptile and amphibian trackways from the Lower Triassic Moenkopi formation of Arizona and Utah. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 27(8):295-468

Belongs to Synaptichnium according to H. Klein and S. G. Lucas 2010

See also Baird 1954, Bock 1952, Demathieu and Haubold 1972, Gand 1974, Gand et al. 2012, Gand et al. 2007, Haubold 1969, Haubold 1971, Haubold 1974, Klein and Lucas 2021, Klein et al. 2011, Kuhn 1958, Lucas et al. 2007, Peabody 1948 and Schmidt 1959

Sister taxa: Synaptichnium argantobrivense, Synaptichnium cameronensis, Synaptichnium chirotherioides, Synaptichnium hildburghausense, Synaptichnium kotanskii, Synaptichnium motutongense, Synaptichnium priscum, Synaptichnium pseudosuchoides, Synaptichnium senkowiczowae

Type specimen: UCMP 36819, a footprint. Its type locality is Meteor Crater Quarry area, tracksites, which is in a Spathian wet floodplain mudstone in the Moenkopi Formation of Arizona.

Distribution:

• Triassic of France (2 collections), United States (1: Arizona)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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