Amblydactylus kortmeyeri Currie and Sarjeant 1979 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae

Alternative combination: Caririchnium kortmeyeri

Full reference: P. J. Currie and W. A. S. Sarjeant. 1979. Lower Cretaceous dinosaur footprints from the Peace River Canyon, British Columbia, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 28:103-115

Belongs to Amblydactylus according to S. W. Salisbury et al. 2016

See also Bell et al. 2019, Currie 1983, Currie and Sarjeant 1979, Díaz-Martínez et al. 2015, Enriquez et al. 2022, Gangloff et al. 2004, Kim et al. 2009, Llompart 2006, Lockley 1994, Lockley et al. 2014, Pascual et al. 2002, Sarjeant 1981, Thulborn 1990, Thulborn and Wade 1984 and Xing et al. 2021

Sister taxon: Amblydactylus gethingi

Type specimen: PMA P76.11.11, a footprint (left pes print). Its type locality is Aylard Creek, Peace River Canyon, which is in an Albian terrestrial sandstone in the Gething Formation of Canada.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Australia (1 collection), Canada (11: British Columbia, Yukon)

Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence

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