Ameghinichnus patagonicus Casamiquela 1961 (mammal)

Mammalia

Full reference: R. M. Casamiquela. 1961. Sobre la presencia de un mamífero en el primer elenco (icnologico) de vertebrados del Jurásico de la Patagonia [On the presence of a mammal on the first vertebrate cast (ichnological) from the Jurassic of Patagonia]. Physis 22(63):225-233

Belongs to Ameghinichnus according to S. De Valais 2009

See also Casamiquela 1961, Casamiquela 1964, De Valais and Melchor 2003, Hunt and Lucas 2007, Leonardi 1981, Olsen and Galton 1984, Sarjeant 2000 and Xing et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Ameghinichnus acutus, Ameghinichnus cancrivorus, Ameghinichnus formosus, Ameghinichnus fortis, Ameghinichnus ginsburgi, Ameghinichnus gracilis, Ameghinichnus intentus, Ameghinichnus major, Ameghinichnus manantialensis, Ameghinichnus mirabilis, Ameghinichnus mirus, Ameghinichnus parvulus, Ameghinichnus parvus, Ameghinichnus vandijki, Eopentapodiscus major, Eopentapodiscus crassus

Type specimen: MLP 60-X-31-14, a footprint. Its type locality is Estancia Laguna Manantiales tracksite (9.2 m), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian eolian sandstone in the La Matilde Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Estancia Laguna Manantiales tracksite (9.2 m)

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