Coelurosaurichnus

Walter Klosse · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- SaurischiaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At least 72 million years on record.
The record covers at least 247 Mya to 174.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 143.1 Mya.
42 occurrences of Coelurosaurichnus on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
42 occurrences- Early Triassic7%
- Middle Triassic48%
- Late Triassic42%
- Early Jurassicunder 1%
- Middle Jurassic1%
- Late Jurassic1%
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
18 formations
- Grès d'Antully Formation13
- Benkersandstein Formation · Keuper Group3
- Chester Pebble Beds Formation · Sherwood Sandstone Group3
- Grès supérieurs et Argiles associés Formation2
- Passaic Formation · Chatham Group2
- Löwenstein Formation · Keuper Group2
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The named rock units Coelurosaurichnus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Coelurosaurichnus and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Coelurosaurichnus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
130 taxa- Anchisauripus bibractensis9 sites
- Brachychirotherium7 sites
- Brachychirotherium pachydactylum7 sites
- Rhynchosauroides7 sites
- Chirotheriidae6 sites
- Chirotherium barthii6 sites
- Chirotherium ferox6 sites
- Rhynchosauroides petri6 sites
- Rotodactylus lucasi6 sites
- Brachychirotherium circaparvum4 sites
- Brachychirotherium parvum4 sites
- Chirotherium4 sites
- Grallator4 sites
- Rotodactylus4 sites
- Scoyenia4 sites
- Anchisauripus3 sites
- Grallator tuberosus3 sites
- Kouphichnium3 sites
- Phalangichnus3 sites
- Rotodactylus rati3 sites
- Apatopus lineatus2 sites
- Dinosauria2 sites
- Grallator tenuis2 sites
- Isochirotherium2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Coelurosaurichnus, 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
28 references- Empreintes de Pas de Vertébrés du Trias de la Bordure Nord-Est du Massif Central (Vertebrate Footprints from the Triassic of the Northeast Border of the Massif Central]3
- Fossil vertebrate and invertebrate tracks from boreholes through the Bunter Series (Triassic) of Worcestershire3
- Les traces de pas d'amphibiens, de dinosaures et autres reptiles du Mesozoïque français: Inventaire et interpretations [Footprints of amphibians, dinosaurs, and other reptiles from the French Mesozoic: inventory and interpretations]2
- Les pistes dinosauroïds du Trias moyen français: interprétation et réévaluation de la nomenclature [The French Middle Triassic dinosauroid trackways: interpretation and nomenclatural reevaluation]2
- Stop 1.1: Boren Clay Products Quarry, Gulf, NC2
- Note sure un nouvel assemblage à traces de Vertébrés de l'Autunois. Son interprétation géologique [Note on a new assemblage with vertebrate traces from the Autunois. Its geological interpretation]2
- Coelurosaurichnus sabinensis: trace triasique nouvelle de la bordure N.-E. du Massif Central [Coelurosaurichnus sabinensis: a new Triassic trackway from the northeastern border of the Massif Central]2
- Les traces de vertébrés triasiques de l’Autunois et du Nord du Charollais [Triassic vertebrate traces from the Autunois and the northern Charollais]2
- Coelurosaurichnus perriauxi, empreinte dinosauroïde nouvelle du Trias du plateau d’Antully (Saône-et-Loire) [Coelurosaurichnus perriauxi, a new dinosaur footprint from the Triassic of the Antully plateau (Saône-et-Loire)]2
- Neue Reptilienfährten-Funde aus der germanischen Trias [New reptile footprint discoveries in the German Trias]2
- Zwei neue Arten von Coelurosaurichnus aus dem Keuper Frankens [Two new species of Coelurosaurichnus from the Frankish Keuper]2
- Neue Fährtenfunde aus der Fränkischen Trias [New track discoveries in the Franconian Triassic]2
Each of the 42 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. 16 further references are not listed. 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 Coelurosaurichnus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Walter Klosse
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Coelurosaurichnus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Huene 1941