Wintonopus is anichnogenus ofdinosaur footprint. Its footprints have been found atLark Quarry inQueenslandAustralia. The genus is named after theWinton Formation in which the tracks were found.[1] Other tracks were found in theBroome Sandstone ofDampier Peninsula,Western Australia.
Wintonopus | |
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Trace fossil classification![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
Ichnogenus: | †Wintonopus Thulborn & Wade 1984 |
Ichnospecies | |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^Wintonopus atFossilworks.org
Further reading
edit- Glut, Donald F. (2003)."Appendix: Dinosaur Tracks and Eggs".Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia. 3rd Supplement. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 613–652.ISBN 0-7864-1166-X.
- S. W. Salisbury, A. Romilio, M. C. Herne, R. T. Tucker, and J. P. Nair. 2016. The Dinosaurian Ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Walmadany Area (James Price Point), Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 16. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(6, suppl.):1-152
- R. A. Thulborn and M. Wade. 1984. Dinosaur trackways in the Winton Formation (mid-Cretaceous) of Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 21(2):413-517
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