Anomoepodidae

Jeffrey A. Wilson1*, Claudia A. Marsicano2, Roger M. H. Smith3 · CC BY 2.5 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrnithopodaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ornithopoda
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithischia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithischia
Time the record covers
At least 68 million years on record.
The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 121.4 Mya.
12 occurrences of Anomoepodidae on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
12 occurrencesThese are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
12 formations
- Mist Mountain Formation · Kootenay Group1
- Chinle Formation1
- Zagaje Formation1
- Phra Wihan Formation · Khorat Group1
- Fuxian Formation1
- Yongping Formation1
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The named rock units Anomoepodidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anomoepodidae and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Anomoepodidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Theropoda4 sites
- Grallator3 sites
- Anchisauripus2 sites
- Brachychirotherium2 sites
- Crocodylia2 sites
- Neoanomoepus2 sites
- Pseudotetrasauropus2 sites
- Shenmuichnus2 sites
- Chirotheriidae1 site
- Columbosauripus ungulatus1 site
- Decapoda1 site
- Dinosauria1 site
- Eoanomoepus latus1 site
- Eosauropus cimarronensis1 site
- Eubrontes1 site
- Irenesauripus acutus1 site
- Kalosauropus pollex1 site
- Mammalia1 site
- Megalosauripus1 site
- Neoanomoepus perigrinatus1 site
- Neocalamites1 site
- Ornithischia1 site
- Pentasauropus1 site
- Prosauropoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Anomoepodidae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
9 references- An important ornithischian tracksite in the Early Jurassic of the Shenmu region, Shaanxi, China2
- Ichnological evidence for small quadrupedal ornithischians from the basal Cretaceous of SE Asia and North America: implications for a global radiation2
- Observations on the ichnogenus Gwyneddichium and Gwyneddichium-like footprints and trackways from the Upper Triassic of the western United States2
- First record of a small stegosaur footprint (cf. Stegopodus) from the ?Upper Jurassic-?Lower Cretaceous red beds of the Middle Atlas, Morocco1
- Upper Triassic tetrapod track assemblages from the Chinle Group, Moab area, Utah1
- First Early Jurassic ornithischian and theropod footprint assemblage and a new ichnotaxon Shenmuichnus wangi ichnosp. nov. from Yunnan Province, southwestern China1
- A review of vertebrate track-bearing formations from the Mesozoic and earliest Cenozoic of western Canada with a description of a new theropod ichnospecies and reassignment of an avian ichnogenus1
- Diverse vertebrate ichnofaunas containing Anomoepus and other unusual trace fossils from the Lower Jurassic of the western United States: implications for paleoecology and palichnostratigraphy1
- A trackway bonanza with mammal footprints from the Late Triassic of Colorado1
Each of the 12 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Anomoepodidae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Jeffrey A. Wilson1*, Claudia A. Marsicano2, Roger M. H. Smith3
- Licence
- CC BY 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anomoepodidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOrnithopoda through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lull 1904