Carmelopodus

Carmelopodus is an ichnogenus of theropod dinosaur footprint. They are suggested to belong to basal ceratosaurs, due to their similarities with abelisaurid footprints. In 2016, a large footprint from the Early Jurassic Aganane Formation of Morocco belonging to Carmelopodus sp. was estimated to belong to an 8 m (26 ft) long and 1.65 t heavy individual. Another footprint from the Middle Jurassic of the USA that belongs to Carmelopodus untermannorum, the type species, has a size of 4 cm (0.13 ft) and was made by an individual that was 68 cm (2.2 ft) in length and 1 kg (2.2 lbs).

Carmelopodus

PePeEfe · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
TheropodaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Theropoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

Time the record covers

At least 78 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 12 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 7 of 12 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 3 of 12 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 12 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrences203–200 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences200–196 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences172–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–165 Mya — about 5 occurrences165–161 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences161–158 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences158–154 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–147 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199.5 Mya121.4 Mya203 Mya98 Mya

12 occurrences of Carmelopodus on record, most of them in the Middle 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 occurrences

These 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

9 formations

Valtos Sandstone — 57.60°N, 6.16°WCarmel — 40.58°N, 109.42°WCarmel — 40.42°N, 109.24°WForest Marble — 52.01°N, 0.93°WPrzysucha — 50.93°N, 21.63°ECedar Mountain — 38.72°N, 109.73°WMorillon — 46.71°N, 5.89°EReuchenette — 47.42°N, 7.02°EShaximiao — 28.57°N, 103.01°EMajala — 20.93°S, 69.06°W

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The named rock units Carmelopodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Carmelopodus and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Carmelopodus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

29 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Carmelopodus, 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

8 references

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 content2

Picture of Carmelopodus

Credit
PePeEfe
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
cf. Carmelopodus (Maj5 Tw1, Tw2, Maj5 IT5), cf. Therangospodus (Maj5 IT1, IT8); Grallator-like (May5 IT9, IT10) sp. · CMN:Maj5

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTheropoda through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lockley et al. 1998