Hyloidichnus

{{Short description|Trace fossil}} {{Ichnobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Permian|Triassic|Permian-Triassic}} | image = Hyloidichnus major - lodeve, Francia- Perm.JPG | image_caption = ''H. major'' | taxon = Hyloidichnus | authority = Gilmore 1927 | type_ichnospecies = ''H. bifurcatus'' | type_ichnospecies_authority = Gilmore 1927 | subdivision_ranks = Ichnospecies | subdivision = *''D. bifurcatus'' Gilmore 1927; type *''D. major'' Heyler and Lessertisseur 1963 *''D. minor'' Heyler and Lessertisseur 1963 *''D. tirolensis'' Ceoloni ''et al''. 1988 *''D. triasicus'' Biron and Dutuit 1981 }}

'''''Hyloidichnus''''' is a reptile ichnogenus commonly found in assemblages of ichnofossils dating to the Permian<ref name=LucasEtal2001/> to Triassic<ref name=HminnaEtal2012/> in North America,<ref name=LucasEtal2001>{{cite journal |last1=Lucas |first1=Spencer G. |last2=Lerner |first2=Allan J. |last3=Haubold |first3=Hartmut |title=First record of Amphisauropus and Varanopus in the Lower Permian Abo Formation, central New Mexico |journal=Hallesches Jahrb. Geowiss B |date=2001 |volume=29 |pages=69–78 |citeseerx= 10.1.1.503.8731}}</ref> Africa,<ref name=HminnaEtal2012>{{cite journal |last1=Hminna |first1=Abdelkbir |last2=Voigt |first2=Sebastian |last3=Saber |first3=Hafid |last4=Schneider |first4=Jörg W. |last5=Hmich |first5=Driss |title=On a moderately diverse continental ichnofauna from the Permian Ikakern Formation (Argana Basin, Western High Atlas, Morocco) |journal=Journal of African Earth Sciences |date=June 2012 |volume=68 |pages=15–23 |doi=10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2012.03.011|bibcode=2012JAfES..68...15H }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Roger M.H. |last2=Sidor |first2=Christian A. |last3=Tabor |first3=Neil J. |last4=Steyer |first4=J. Sébastien |title=Sedimentology and vertebrate taphonomy of the Moradi Formation of northern Niger: A Permian wet desert in the tropics of Pangaea |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |date=December 2015 |volume=440 |pages=128–141 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.08.032|bibcode=2015PPP...440..128S }}</ref> South America,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Melchor |first1=Ricardo Néstor |last2=Swithin Sarjeant |first2=William Antony |title=Small Amphibian and Reptile Footprints from the Permian Carapacha Basin, Argentina |journal=Ichnos |date=January 2004 |volume=11 |issue=1–2 |pages=57–78 |doi=10.1080/10420940490428814|bibcode=2004Ichno..11...57M |s2cid=140142759 |hdl=11336/81750 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> and Europe.<ref>{{cite journal |first1=P. |last1=Leonardi |year=1951 |title=Orme di tetrapodi nelle Arenarie de Val Gardena (Permiano Medio-inferiore) dell'Alto Adige sud-orientale [Tetrapod footprints in the Val Gardena Sandstones (middle-lower Permian) of southeast Alto Adige] |journal=Memorie degli Istituti di Geologia e Mineralogia dell'Università di Padova |volume=17 |pages=1–23}}</ref>

The animal that created the tracks was most likely from the subfamily Moradisaurinae, a group of lizard-like reptiles.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Voigt |first1=Sebastian |last2=Hminna |first2=Abdelkbir |last3=Saber |first3=Hafid |last4=Schneider |first4=Jörg W. |last5=Klein |first5=Hendrik |title=Tetrapod footprints from the uppermost level of the Permian Ikakern Formation (Argana Basin, Western High Atlas, Morocco) |journal=Journal of African Earth Sciences |date=July 2010 |volume=57 |issue=5 |pages=470–478 |doi=10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2009.12.003|bibcode=2010JAfES..57..470V }}</ref>

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Category:Reptile trace fossils