# Plesiornis

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{{Short description|Dinosaur footprint}}
{{Ichnobox
| fossil_range =
| taxon = Plesiornis
| authority = Hitchcock, 1858
| subdivision_ranks = Ichnospecies
| subdivision = {{Species list
| Plesiornis pilulatus|Hitchcock, 1858}}
}}

'''''Plesiornis''''', whose name means "nearly bird", is an [ichnogenus](/source/ichnogenus) of [theropod](/source/theropod) [dinosaur footprint](/source/dinosaur_footprint). Tracks attributed to this ichnogenus are found in the [Late Triassic](/source/Late_Triassic)-[Early Jurassic](/source/Early_Jurassic) of North America and Poland.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Gierliński, G.|year=1996|title=Avialian theropod tracks from the Early Jurassic strata of Poland|journal=Zubía|volume=14|pages=79–87}}</ref> The definitive trackmaker of this ichnotaxon is currently uncertain.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Weems|first=Robert E.|date=2018|title=A synopsis of the vertebrate fauna from the Culpeper Basin (Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic, Maryland and Virginia)|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348579482|journal=New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin|volume=79|pages=749–768}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Dinosaurs|Paleontology}}
* [List of dinosaur ichnogenera](/source/List_of_dinosaur_ichnogenera)

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{cite book |last=Glut |first=Donald F. |title=Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia. 3rd Supplement |year=2003 |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |isbn=0-7864-1166-X |chapter=Appendix: Dinosaur Tracks and Eggs |pages=[https://archive.org/details/dinosaursencyclo00glut_2/page/613 613–652] |chapter-url-access=registration |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/dinosaursencyclo00glut_2 |url=https://archive.org/details/dinosaursencyclo00glut_2/page/613 }}

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Category:Theropod trace fossils

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