Caririchnium magnificum Leonardi 1984 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae

Full reference: G. Leonardi. 1984. Le impronte fossili di Dinosauri [The fossil footprints of dinosaurs]. Sulle Orme dei Dinosauri 164-186

Belongs to Caririchnium according to I. Díaz-Martínez et al. 2015

See also Castanera et al. 2021, Han 2020, Huh and Hwang 2004, Kim et al. 2016, Lee et al. 2018, Leonardi 1984, Leonardi 1989, Leonardi and Carvalho 2021, Lockley 1987, Lockley and Wright 2001, Lockley et al. 2014, Pereda-Suberbiola et al. 2013, Salisbury et al. 2016, Xing et al. 2014, Xing et al. 2015, Xing et al. 2016, Xing et al. 2019, Xing et al. 2015 and Xing et al. 2007

Sister taxa: Caririchnium billsarjeanti, Caririchnium liucixini, Caririchnium lotus, Caririchnium protohadrosaurichnos, Caririchnium yeongdongensis, Laoyingshanpus

Type specimen: 25-m-long in situ trackway, a footprint (trackway; plastotype preserved at Museu Câmara Cascudo del-l’Università, Federale di Natal). Its type locality is Serrote do Pimenta tracksite (SOES), which is in a Berriasian/Valanginian alluvial fan sandstone/sandstone in the Antenor Navarro Formation of Brazil.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Brazil (3 collections), Spain (2)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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