Reptilia - Pterosauria - Pteraichnidae
Full reference: M. Lockley, T. J. Logue, J. J. Moratalla, A. P. Hunt, R. J. Schultz and J. W. Robinson. 1995. The fossil trackway Pteraichnus is pterosaurian, not crocodilian: implications for the global distribution of pterosaur tracks. Ichnos 4:7-20
Belongs to Pteraichnus according to B. Sánchez-Hernández et al. 2009
See also Fuentes Vidarte et al. 2004, Li et al. 2015, Pascual Arribas and Sanz Pérez 2000 and Xing et al. 2013
Sister taxa: Pteraichnus cidacoi, Pteraichnus dongyangensis, Pteraichnus koreanensis, Pteraichnus longipodus, Pteraichnus manueli, Pteraichnus nipponensis, Pteraichnus palacieisaenzi, Pteraichnus parvus, Pteraichnus saltwashensis, Pteraichnus vetustior, Pteraichnus yanguoxiaensis
Type specimen: UW 12368, a footprint (Trackway). Its type locality is Cottonwood Beach tracksite, Alcova, which is in an Oxfordian foreshore limestone in the Sundance Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: volant piscivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of United States (2: Utah, Wyoming collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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