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Pseudotetrasauropus ✝

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Pseudotetrasauropus is an ichnogenus of dinosaur footprint.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudotetrasauropus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4823459	https://www.gbif.org/species/4823459
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	77385	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=77385

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Pseudotetrasauropus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Pseudotetrasauropus

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
-	Eusaurischia	Padian et al. 1999
-	Sauropodomorpha
-	Plateosauria
-	Anchisauria	Galton and Upchurch 2004
-	Prosauropoda
genus	Pseudotetrasauropus	Ellenberger 1972

Scientific Name

Pseudotetrasauropus Ellenberger, 1972

Name Published In

Contribution a la classification des pistes de Vertebras du Trias etc. Palaeovertebrata (Mem. extraord.) 1972

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pseudotetrasauropus	genus	belongs to Melanorosauridae	stated with evidence	Ellenberger, 1970
Pseudotetrasauropus	genus	subjective synonym of Brachychirotherium	stated with evidence	Olsen and Galton, 1984
Pseudotetrasauropus	genus	belongs to Prosauropoda	stated without evidence	Hunt et al., 1998
Pseudotetrasauropus	genus	subjective synonym of Otozoum	stated with evidence	Gand et al., 2000
Pseudotetrasauropus	genus	belongs to Prosauropoda	stated without evidence	Nicosia and Loi, 2003
Pseudotetrasauropus	genus	belongs to Otozoidae	stated with evidence	Lockley et al., 2006
Pseudotetrasauropus	genus	belongs to Prosauropoda	stated with evidence	D'Orazi Porchetti and Nicosia, 2007

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

237 - 228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Prosauropoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Prosauropoda)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. Ellenberger. 1970. Les niveaux paléontologiques de première apparition des mammifères primoridaux en Afrique du Sud et leur ichnologie. Establissement de zones stratigraphiques detaillees dans le Stormberg du Lesotho (Afrique du Sud) (Trias Supérieur à Jurassique) [The paleontological levels of the first appearance of primordial mammals in southern Africa and their ichnology. Establishment of detailed stratigraphic zones in the Stormberg of Lesotho (southern Africa) (Upper Triassic to Jurassic). In: S. H. Haughton (ed.), Second Symposium on Gondwana Stratigraphy and Paleontology, International Union of Geological Sciences. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudotetrasauropus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Pseudotetrasauropus andusiensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pseudotetrasauropus bipedoida ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Pseudotetrasauropus corbesiensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pseudotetrasauropus grandcombensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Pseudotetrasauropus lehmani Ellenberger, 1965	GBIF	species	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : *Pseudotetrasauropus lehmani*
Pseudotetrasauropus mekalingensis (Ellenberger, 1970)	GBIF	species	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : *Pseudotetrasauropus mekalingensis*
Brachychirotherium mekalingensis (Ellenberger, 1970)	GBIF	species	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : *Brachychirotherium mekalingensis*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1965	Pseudotetrasauropus Ellenberger
1965	Pseudotetrasauropus lehmani Ellenberger
1970	Pseudotetrasauropus Ellenberger p. 345
1970	Pseudotetrasauropus mekalingensis Ellenberger p. 345
1970	Pseudotetrasauropus lehmani Ellenberger p. 353
1972	Pseudotetrasauropus mekalingensis Ellenberger p. 59–60
1972	Pseudotetrasauropus Ellenberger p. 152

Year	Name and Author
1984	Brachychirotherium mekalingensis Olsen and Galton p. 109
1998	Pseudotetrasauropus Hunt et al. p. 523
2000	Otozoum mekalingensis Gand et al. p. 609
2003	Pseudotetrasauropus mekalingensis Avanzini et al. p. 187
2003	Pseudotetrasauropus Nicosia and Loi p. 138
2006	Pseudotetrasauropus Lockley et al. p. 205
2007	Pseudotetrasauropus D'Orazi Porchetti and Nicosia pp. 222-227

References

Ellenberger P. (1970) Les niveaux paléontologiques de première apparition des mammifères primoridaux en Afrique du Sud et leur ichnologie. Establissement de zones stratigraphiques detaillees dans le Stormberg du Lesotho (Afrique du Sud) (Trias Supérieur à Jurassique) [The paleontological levels of the first appearance of primordial mammals in southern Africa and their ichnology. Establishment of detailed stratigraphic zones in the Stormberg of Lesotho (southern Africa) (Upper Triassic to Jurassic)., In: S. H. Haughton (ed.), Second Symposium on Gondwana Stratigraphy and Paleontology, International Union of Geological Sciences. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, 343-370

Ellenberger P. (1972) Contribution à la classification des Pistes de Vertébrés du Trias: Les types du Stormberg d’Afrique du Sud (I) [Contribution to the classification of Triassic vertebrate footprints: the types from the Stormberg of South Africa (I)], Palaeovertebrata Mem. Ext. 1972, 1-152

Olsen P. E., Galton P. M. (1984) A review of the reptile and amphibian assemblages from the Stormberg of southern Africa, with special emphasis on the footprints and the age of the Stormberg, Palaeontologia Africana 25, 87-110

Hunt A. P., Lucas S. G., et al (1998) Late Triassic dinosaurs from the western United States, Géobios 31 4, 511-531

Gand G., Vianey-Liaud M., et al (2000) Deux nouvelles traces de pas de Dinosaures du Trias supérieur de la bordure cévenole (La Grand-Combe, Sud-Est de la France) [Two new dinosaur footprints from the Upper Triassic of the Cevennes border (La Grande-Combe, southeastern France)], Geobios 33 5, 599-624

Avanzini M., Leonardi G., et al (2003) Lavinipes cheminii ichnogen., ichnosp. nov., a possible sauropodomorph track from the Lower Jurassic of the Italian Alps, Ichnos 10 2–4, 179-193 doi:10.1080/10420940390256195

Nicosia U., Loi M. (2003) Triassic footprints from Lerici (La Spezia, northern Italy), Ichnos 10, 127-140 doi:10.1080/10420940390256203

Lockley M. G., Lucas S. G., et al (2006) Evazoum and the renaming of Northern Hemisphere “Pseudotetrasauropus”: implications for tetrapod ichnotaxonomy at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37, 199-206

D'Orazi Porchetti S., Nicosia U. (2007) Re-examination of some large early Mesozoic tetrapod footprints from the African collection of Paul Ellenberger, Ichnos 14 3-4, 219-245 doi:10.1080/10420940601049990

NZ cross ref or inferred from publ. title - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

GBIF/Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Contribution a la classification des pistes de Vertebras du Trias etc. Palaeovertebrata (Mem. extraord.) 1972 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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