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Amblydactylus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	68216	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=68216

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Iguanodontidae : Amblydactylus

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
-	Ornithischia
-	Neornithischia
-	Ornithopoda
-	Iguanodontia
-	Dryomorpha	Sereno 1986
-	Ankylopollexia	Sereno 1986
-	Neoiguanodontia	Norman 2014
family	Iguanodontidae	Bonaparte 1850
genus	Amblydactylus	Sternberg 1932

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Amblydactylus	genus	belongs to Eubrontidae	stated without evidence	Sternberg, 1932
Amblydactylus	genus	belongs to Ornithischia	stated without evidence	Kuhn, 1958
Amblydactylus	genus	belongs to Ornithopoda	stated without evidence	Kuhn, 1963
Amblydactylus	genus	belongs to Iguanodontidae	stated with evidence	Haubold, 1971
Amblydactylus	genus	belongs to Hadrosauridae	stated without evidence	Currie and Sarjeant, 1979
Amblydactylus	genus	belongs to Ornithopoda	stated without evidence	Lockley, 1992
Amblydactylus	genus	belongs to Iguanodontia	stated without evidence	Lockley et al., 2003
Amblydactylus	genus	belongs to Hadrosauridae	stated without evidence	Weems, 2004
Amblydactylus	genus	belongs to Ornithopoda	stated without evidence	Gangloff et al., 2004
Amblydactylus	genus	belongs to Iguanodontidae	stated without evidence	Lockley et al., 2009

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

140 - 125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

105 - 94 Ma
Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Ornithischia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Ornithischia)

Diet

herbivore (based on Ornithopoda)

Reproduction

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

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Ornithischia)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Ornithischia)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. M. Sternberg. 1932. Dinosaur tracks from Peace River, British Columbia. National Museum of Canada Bulletin 68:59-85

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Amblydactylus kortmeyeri ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		12	140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1932	Amblydactylus Sternberg p. 72
1932	Amblydactylus gethingi Sternberg p. 72
1958	Amblydactylus Kuhn p. 27
1958	Amblydactylus gethingi Kuhn p. 27
1963	Amblydactylus Kuhn p. 106
1963	Amblydactylus gethingi Kuhn p. 106
1971	Amblydactylus Haubold p. 88
1971	Amblydactylus gethingi Haubold p. 88
1979	Amblydactylus Currie and Sarjeant p. 105
1979	Amblydactylus gethingi Currie and Sarjeant p. 105
1981	Amblydactylus gethingi Sarjeant p. 170
1983	Amblydactylus gethingi Currie p. 64 fig. 1

Year	Name and Author
1992	Amblydactylus Lockley p. 272
1994	Amblydactylus gethingi Lockley p. 352
2003	Amblydactylus Lockley et al. p. 238
2004	Amblydactylus Gangloff et al. p. 306
2004	Amblydactylus gethingi Gangloff et al. p. 306
2004	Amblydactylus Weems p. 116
2005	Amblydactylus gethingi Harington et al. p. 135
2009	Amblydactylus gethingi Kim et al. p. 1393
2009	Amblydactylus Lockley et al. p. 266
2015	Amblydactylus gethingi Weems and Bachman p. 215
2016	Amblydactylus gethingi Salisbury et al. p. 40

References

Sternberg C. M. (1932) Dinosaur tracks from Peace River, British Columbia, National Museum of Canada Bulletin 68, 59-85

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

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

Currie P. J., Sarjeant W. A. S. (1979) Lower Cretaceous dinosaur footprints from the Peace River Canyon, British Columbia, Canada, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 28, 103-115

Sarjeant W. A. S. (1981) In the footsteps of dinosaurs, Explorer’s Journal 59 4, 164-171

Currie P. J. (1983) Hadrosaur trackways from the Lower Cretaceous of Canada, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 28 1-2, 63-73

Lockley M. G. (1992) Cretaceous dinosaur-dominated footprints assemblages: their stratigraphic and palaeoecological potential, Aspects of Nonmarine Cretaceous Geology. China Ocean Press, Beijing, 269-282

Lockley M. G., Nadon G., et al (2003) A diverse dinosaur-bird footprint assemblage from the Lance Formation, Upper Cretaceous, eastern Wyoming; implications for ichnotaxonomy, Ichnos 11, 229-249

Gangloff R. A., May K. C., et al (2004) An early Late Cretaceous dinosaur tracksite in central Yukon Territory, Canada, Ichnos 11, 299-309

Kim J. Y., Lockley M. G., et al (2009) New dinosaur tracks from Korea, Ornithopodichnus masanensis ichnogen. et ichnosp. nov. (Jindong Formation, Lower Cretaceous): implications for polarities in ornithopod foot morphology, Cretaceous Research 30, 1387-1397 doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2009.08.003

Lockley M. G., McCrea R. T., et al (2009) Ichnological evidence for small quadrupedal ornithischians from the basal Cretaceous of SE Asia and North America: implications for a global radiation, Late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Ecosystems in SE Asia. The Geological Society of London, Special Publication 315, 255-269 doi:10.1144/SP315.18

Weems R. E., Bachman J. M. (2015) The Lower Cretaceous Patuxent Formation ichnofauna of Virginia, Ichnos 22 3–4, 209-219 doi:10.1080/10420940.2015.1063493

Salisbury S. W., Romilio A., et al (2016) The Dinosaurian Ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Walmadany Area (James Price Point), Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 16. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36 6, suppl., 1-152 doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1269539

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