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Caririchnium magnificum

Reptilia - Iguanodontipodidae

Taxonomy
Caririchnium magnificum was named by Leonardi (1984). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is 25-m-long in situ trackway, a footprint (trackway; plastotype preserved at Museu Câmara Cascudo del-l’Università, Federale di Natal), and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Serrote do Pimenta tracksite (SOES), which is in a Berriasian/Valanginian alluvial fan sandstone/sandstone in the Antenor Navarro Formation of Brazil.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1984Caririchnium magnificum Leonardi p. 177 fig. 8
1987Caririchnium magnificum Lockley p. 113
1989Caririchnium magnificum Leonardi p. 167
2001Caririchnium magnificum Lockley and Wright p. 433
2004Caririchnium magnificum Huh and Hwang p. 326
2007Caririchnium magnificum Xing et al. p. 1597
2013Caririchnium magnificum Pereda-Suberbiola et al. p. 75
2014Caririchnium magnificum Lockley et al. p. 726
2014Caririchnium magnificum Xing et al. p. 84
2015Caririchnium magnificum Díaz-Martínez et al. pp. 12, 27
2015Caririchnium magnificum Xing et al. p. 26
2015Caririchnium magnificum Xing et al. p. 323
2016Caririchnium magnificum Kim et al. p. 6
2016Caririchnium magnificum Salisbury et al. p. 126
2016Caririchnium magnificum Xing et al. p. 189
2018Caririchnium magnificum Lee et al. p. 211
2019Caririchnium magnificum Xing et al.
2020Caririchnium magnificum Han p. 14
2021Caririchnium magnificum Castanera et al. p. 160
2021Caririchnium magnificum Leonardi and Carvalho p. 227

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
RankNameAuthor
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Ornithischia()
Genasauria
Cerapoda
Ornithopoda()
familyIguanodontipodidaeVyalov 1987
genusCaririchnium
speciesmagnificum

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Caririchnium magnificum Leonardi 1984
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
G. Leonardi 1984Pista quadrupede di grandi dimensioni, con rilevante disparità tra le grandi orme posteriori e le piccole anteriori.
I. Díaz-Martínez et al. 2015Pes tracks belonging to Caririchnium with very large heel pad impressions, approximately as wide as or wider than long; blunt distal end of digit impressions; subtriangular distal part of the heel pad; manus tracks elliptic and wider than long.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: gregariouso
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: herbivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:40:05
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:40:05
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Berriasian to the top of the Aptian or 145.00000 to 113.00000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Berriasian - Valanginian145.0 - 132.9Brazil (Paraíba) Caririchnium magnificum (68628) Ornithischia indet. (type locality: 58792)
Berriasian - Hauterivian145.0 - 129.4Brazil (Paraíba) Caririchnium magnificum (51954)
Early/Lower Barremian130.0 - 125.45Spain (Aragón) Caririchnium magnificum (225923)
Aptian125.0 - 113.0Spain (La Rioja) Iguanodon sp. (173545)