Reptilia - Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Alternative combinations: Otozoum swinnertoni, Paratetrasauropus swinnertoni
Full reference: W. A. S. Sarjeant. 1970. Fossil footprints from the Middle Triassic of Nottinghamshire and the Middle Jurassic of Yorkshire. The Mercian Geologist 3(3):269-282
Belongs to Chirotherium according to S. D'Orazi Porchetti and U. Nicosia 2007
See also Demathieu and Haubold 1972, Haubold 1971, King et al. 2005 and Sarjeant 1970
Sister taxa: Chirotherium atlensis, Chirotherium barthii, Chirotherium culmbachense, Chirotherium ferox, Chirotherium herculis, Chirotherium heterodactylum, Chirotherium ischigualastianum, Chirotherium ladinicus, Chirotherium mediterraneum, Chirotherium peabodyi, Chirotherium postchirotherioides, Chirotherium praeparvum, Chirotherium reiteri, Chirotherium rex, Chirotherium sickleri, Chirotherium soergeli, Chirotherium storetonense, Chirotherium vorbachi, Quadridigitus dubius, Saurichnites pourriaci, Saurichnites leisnerianus
Type specimen: PC4238, a footprint. Its type locality is Mapperley Park tracksite, which is in an Anisian terrestrial sandstone in the Keuper Waterstones Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution: found only at Mapperley Park tracksite
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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