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Eubrontidae ✝

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Grallator sp.

New Jersey, USA

Grallator tenuis

South Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA

Grallator sp.

New Jersey, USA

Grallator tenuis

South Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA

Grallator sp.

New Jersey, USA

Grallator tenuis

South Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4822728	https://www.gbif.org/species/4822728
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	67227	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=67227

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Eubrontidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Eubrontidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Saurischia
-	Theropoda
family	Eubrontidae	Lull 1904

Scientific Name

Eubrontidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Eubrontidae	family	belongs to Orthopoda	stated with evidence	Lull, 1904
Eubrontidae	family	belongs to Theropoda	stated with evidence	Lull, 1915
Eubrontidae	family	belongs to Carnosauria	stated without evidence	Lull, 1953
Eubrontidae	family	belongs to Coelurosauria	stated without evidence	Kuhn, 1963
Eubrontidae	family	belongs to Theropoda	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1966
Eubrontidae	family	belongs to Carnosauria	stated with evidence	Haubold, 1969
Eubrontidae	family	belongs to Tyrannosauroidea	stated with evidence	Haubold, 1971
Eubrontidae	family	belongs to Carnosauria	stated without evidence	Demathieu and Haubold, 1972
Eubrontidae	family	belongs to Tyrannosauroidea	stated without evidence	Leonardi, 1979
Eubrontidae	family	belongs to Carnosauria	stated without evidence	Yang and Yang, 1987
Eubrontidae	family	belongs to Theropoda	stated with evidence	Lü et al., 2006
Eubrontidae	family	belongs to Carnosauria	stated without evidence	Li et al., 2010

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

106

First Recorded Appearance

251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic

Last Recorded Appearance

174 - 164 Ma
Middle Jurassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Theropoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Theropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Theropoda)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Theropoda)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Theropoda)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Theropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. S. Lull. 1904. Fossil footprints of the Jura-Trias of North America. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 5(11):461-557

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Chapus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Eubrontes genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Grallator genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Jinlijingpus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	174 Ma Middle Jurassic	174 Ma Middle Jurassic
Lufengopus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	174 Ma Middle Jurassic	174 Ma Middle Jurassic
Megalosauripus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		34	201 Ma Early Jurassic	156 Ma Jurassic
Grallator (Eubrontes) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		642	237 Ma Middle Triassic	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1904	Eubrontidae Lull p. 510
1915	Eubrontidae Lull p. 194
1953	Eubrontidae Lull p. 178
1958	Eubrontidae Kuhn p. 22
1963	Eubrontidae Kuhn p. 83
1966	Eubrontidae Kuhn p. 97
1969	Eubrontidae Haubold p. 99
1971	Eubrontidae Haubold p. 75

Year	Name and Author
1972	Eubrontidae Demathieu and Haubold p. 806
1979	Eubrontidae Leonardi p. 244
1987	Eubrontidae Yang and Yang p. 19
1989	Eubrontidae Zhen et al. p. 192
2006	Eubrontidae Li et al. p. 230
2006	Eubrontidae Lü et al. p. 35
2010	Eubrontidae Li et al. p. 726

References

Lull R. S. (1904) Fossil footprints of the Jura-Trias of North America, Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 5 11, 461-557

Lull R. S. (1915) Triassic life of the Connecticut Valley, State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin 24, 1-285

Lull R. S. (1953) Triassic life of the Connecticut Valley (revised), State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin 81, 1-336

Kuhn O. (1958) , Die Fährten der vorzeitlichen Amphibien und Reptilien [The Tracks of Prehistoric Amphibians and Reptiles], 1-64

Kuhn O. (1963) Pars 101. Ichnia Tetrapodorum, In F. Westphal (ed.), Fossilium Catalogus. I: Animalia. Ysel Press, Deventer, Netherlands, 1-176

Kuhn O. W. M. (1966) , Die Reptilien. System und Stammesgeschichte [The Reptiles. Systematics and Phylogeny.], 1-154

Haubold H. (1969) Die Evolution der Archosaurier in der Trias aus der Sicht ihrer Fährten [The evolution of archosaurs in the Triassic from the perspective of their tracks], Hercynia 6 1, 90-106

Haubold H. (1971) , Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie [Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology]. Part 18. Ichnia Amphibiorum et Reptiliorum Fossilium. Gistav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1-124

Demathieu G. R., Haubold H. (1972) Stratigraphische Aussagen der Tetrapodenfährten aus der terrestrischen Trias Europas [Stratigraphic statements about the tetrapod tracks from the European terrestrial Triassic], Geologie 21, 802-836

Leonardi G. (1979) New archosaurian trackways from the Rio do Peixe basin, Paraíba, Brazil, Annali dell'Università di Ferrara (Nuova Serie). Sezione IX – Scienze Geologiche e Paleontologiche 5 14, 239-250

Yang Y. X., Yang Y. D. (1987) , Sichuan Pen Di Kong Long Zu Yin Hua Shi [Dinosaur Footprints from Mesozoic of Sichuan Basin], 1-30

Zhen S., Li J., et al (1989) A review of dinosaur footprints in China, Dinosaur Tracks and Traces. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 187-197

Li J.-J., Bater M., et al (2006) A new type of dinosaur tracks from Lower Cretaceous of Chabu, Otog Qi, Inner Mongolia, Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 45 2, 221-234

Lü J., Azuma Y., et al (2006) The first discovery of dinosaur footprint from Lufeng of Yunnan province, China, Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 5, 35-39

Li J., Bai Z., et al (2010) [Dinosaur tracks in Wulatezhongqi, Inner Mongolia], Acta Geologica Sinica 84 5, 723-742

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