Alternative combination: Eopentapodiscus mirabilis
Full reference: P. Ellenberger. 1970. Les niveaux paléontologiques de première apparition des mammifères primoridaux en Afrique du Sud et leur ichnologie. Establissement de zones stratigraphiques detaillees dans le Stormberg du Lesotho (Afrique du Sud) (Trias Supérieur à Jurassique) [The paleontological levels of the first appearance of primordial mammals in southern Africa and their ichnology. Establishment of detailed stratigraphic zones in the Stormberg of Lesotho (southern Africa) (Upper Triassic to Jurassic). In: S. H. Haughton (ed.), Second Symposium on Gondwana Stratigraphy and Paleontology, International Union of Geological Sciences. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria 343-370
Belongs to Ameghinichnus according to P. E. Olsen and P. M. Galton 1984
See also Ellenberger 1970, Ellenberger 1974 and Foster et al. 2025
Sister taxa: Ameghinichnus acutus, Ameghinichnus cancrivorus, Ameghinichnus formosus, Ameghinichnus fortis, Ameghinichnus ginsburgi, Ameghinichnus gracilis, Ameghinichnus intentus, Ameghinichnus major, Ameghinichnus manantialensis, Ameghinichnus mirus, Ameghinichnus parvulus, Ameghinichnus parvus, Ameghinichnus patagonicus, Ameghinichnus vandijki, Eopentapodiscus major, Eopentapodiscus crassus
Type specimen: 74A, a footprint. Its type locality is Matsepe tracksite (zone B/1), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian crevasse splay siliciclastic in the Elliot Formation of Lesotho.
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution: found only at Matsepe tracksite (zone B/1)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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