Deltapodus

Deltapodus is an ichnogenus of stegosaurian dinosaur footprint. Three ichnospecies have been described in the genus: Deltapodus brodricki from England and the United States, Deltapodus ibericus from Spain and Portugal, and Deltapodus curriei from China. Other tracks referable to the genus but not assignable to a species are also known.

Deltapodus

D. Castanera, L. Mampel & A. Cobos · CC BY 4.0 · 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
StegosauriaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ornithischia
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithischia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithischia

Time the record covers

At least 98 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 35 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 17 of 35 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 12 of 35 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 35 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 35 occurrences177–173 Mya — about 1 occurrence173–169 Mya — about 2 occurrences169–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–162 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences162–158 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences158–154 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences154–150 Mya — about 6 occurrences150–147 Mya — about 6 occurrences147–143 Mya — about 4 occurrences143–139 Mya — about 3 occurrences139–135 Mya — about 1 occurrence135–132 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 3 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 4 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences170.9 Mya72.2 Mya177 Mya64 Mya

35 occurrences of Deltapodus on record, most of them in the Late 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

35 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

16 formations

Villar del Arzobispo — 40.37°N, 0.82°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.59°N, 0.80°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.66°N, 0.88°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.33°N, 1.53°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.35°N, 0.82°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.22°N, 0.92°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.28°N, 0.87°WLourinhã — 39.28°N, 9.34°WLourinhã — 39.22°N, 9.34°WArtoles — 40.65°N, 0.87°WSaltwick — 54.49°N, 0.60°WSaltwick — 54.41°N, 0.49°WHutubihe — 46.07°N, 85.58°ECamarillas — 40.66°N, 0.87°WCamarillas — 40.64°N, 0.88°WLameta — 23.08°N, 73.35°EHuérteles — 42.02°N, 2.38°WMagaña — 41.94°N, 2.03°WYanan — 37.65°N, 109.80°EScalby — 54.31°N, 0.42°WEl Castellar — 40.66°N, 0.87°WTereñes — 43.48°N, 5.09°WBurro Canyon — 37.50°N, 109.30°WDongdaqiao — 30.53°N, 97.90°ELealt Shale — 57.59°N, 6.15°W

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The named rock units Deltapodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Deltapodus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Deltapodus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

104 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Deltapodus, 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

20 references

Each of the 35 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. 8 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 Deltapodus

Credit
D. Castanera, L. Mampel & A. Cobos
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Deltapodus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
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 itStegosauria through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whyte and Romano 1995