Isochirotherium coltoni Peabody 1948

Reptilia - Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae

Alternative combinations: Chirotherium coltoni, Isochirotherium cotteri

Full reference: F. E. Peabody. 1948. Reptile and amphibian trackways from the Lower Triassic Moenkopi formation of Arizona and Utah. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 27(8):295-468

Belongs to Isochirotherium according to H. Klein and S. G. Lucas 2010

See also Baird 1957, Demathieu and Haubold 1972, Haubold 1969, Haubold 1971, Haubold 1974, Klein and Lucas 2021, Klein et al. 2011, Kuhn 1958, Lucas et al. 2007 and Peabody 1948

Sister taxa: Isochirotherium bipedale, Isochirotherium circademathieui, Isochirotherium comblei, Isochirotherium coureli, Isochirotherium delicatum, Isochirotherium demathieui, Isochirotherium felenci, Isochirotherium gardettensis, Isochirotherium gierlinskii, Isochirotherium herculis, Isochirotherium hessbergense, Isochirotherium jenense, Isochirotherium lomasi, Isochirotherium marshalli, Isochirotherium sanctacrucense, Isochirotherium soergeli

Type specimen: UCMP 37329, a footprint. Its type locality is Meteor Crater Quarry area, tracksites, which is in a Spathian wet floodplain mudstone in the Moenkopi Formation of Arizona.

Distribution: found only at Meteor Crater Quarry area, tracksites

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