Rhynchosauroides sphaerodactylus Demathieu 1971 (squamates)

Reptilia - Squamata

Full reference: G. Demathieu. 1971. Cinq nouvelles espèces d’empreintes de Reptiles du Trias de la bordure nord-edt du Massif Central [Five new species of reptile footprints from the Triassic of the northeastern border of the Massif Central]. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, Série D: Sciences Naturelles 272:812-814

Belongs to Rhynchosauroides according to G. Demathieu 1971

See also Demathieu and Haubold 1972, Gand et al. 2007 and Haubold 1974

Sister taxa: Rhynchosauroides articeps, Rhynchosauroides beasleyi, Rhynchosauroides bornemanni, Rhynchosauroides brevidigitatus, Rhynchosauroides gangresci, Rhynchosauroides hyperbates, Rhynchosauroides kuletae, Rhynchosauroides majus, Rhynchosauroides maximus, Rhynchosauroides minutipes, Rhynchosauroides pallinii, Rhynchosauroides petri, Rhynchosauroides pusillus, Rhynchosauroides rdzaneki, Rhynchosauroides rectipes, Rhynchosauroides retroversipes, Rhynchosauroides santanderensis, Rhynchosauroides tirolicus, Rhynchosauroides triangulus, Rhynchosauroides virgiliae, Rhynchocephalichnus pisanus, Rhynchocephalichnus etruscus, Rhynchocephalichnus franconicus, Akropus schochardti

Type specimen: 21.1 AN1, a footprint. Its type locality is Chasselay tracksite, level C (BQ), which is in an Anisian/Ladinian terrestrial horizon in the Grès Inférieurs du Lyonnais Formation of France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Chasselay tracksite, level C (BQ)

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