Rhynchosauroides

{{short description|Ichnogenus of reptile footprints}} {{Ichnobox | fossil_range = Triassic-Cretaceous ~{{fossil range|252|89}} | taxon = Rhynchosauroides | authority = Maidwell 1911 | subdivision_ranks = Ichnospecies | subdivision = See text }} thumb|''Rhynchosauroides'' isp., Natural History Museum University of Pisa '''''Rhynchosauroides''''' is an ichnogenus, a form taxon based on footprints. The organism producing the footprints was likely a lepidosaur<ref>{{cite journal |first1=G. |last1=Gand |first2=G. |last2=Demathieu |year=2005 |title=Les pistes dinosauroïds du Trias moyen français: interprétation et réévaluation de la nomenclature [The French Middle Triassic dinosauroid trackways: interpretation and nomenclatural reevaluation] |journal=Geobios |volume=38 |pages=725–749|doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2005.04.001 }}</ref> and may have been a sphenodont, an ancestor of the modern tuatara. The footprint consists of five digits, of which the fifth is shortened and the first highly shortened.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Hunt|first1=Adrian P.|last2=Lucas|first2=Spencer G.|date=2007|title=Late Triassic tetrapod tracks of western North America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pLPECQAAQBAJ&pg=PA215|journal=New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Bulletin|volume=40|pages=215–230}}</ref>

==Species== {{div col|colwidth=22em}} *''R. beasleyi'' Nopsca, 1923<ref name=DematheiuHaubold1972>{{cite journal |first1=G.R. |last1=Demathieu |first2=H. |last2=Haubold |year=1972 |title=Stratigraphische Aussagen der Tetrapodenfährten aus der terrestrischen Trias Europas [Stratigraphic statements about the tetrapod tracks from the European terrestrial Triassic] |journal=Geologie |volume=21 |pages=802–836}}</ref> *''R. bornemanni'' Haubold, 1966<ref name=DematheiuHaubold1972/> *''R. brunswickii'' Ryan and Willard, 1947<ref>{{cite journal |first1=P.E. |last1=Olsen |first2=D. |last2=Baird |year=1986 |title=Milford revisited: with notes on a new ichnofaunule from the Norian of New Jersey |journal=First International Symposium on Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, Abstracts with Program |pages=21–22}}</ref> *''R. gangresci'' da Silva ''et al.'', 2012<ref name=daSilvaEtal2012>{{cite journal |last1=Silva |first1=Rafael Costa da |last2=Sedor |first2=Fernando Antonio |last3=Fernandes |first3=Antonio Carlos Sequeira |title=Fossil footprints from the Late Permian of Brazil: An example of hidden biodiversity |journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences |date=1 October 2012 |volume=38 |pages=31–43 |doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2012.05.001|bibcode=2012JSAES..38...31D }}</ref> *''R. hyperbates'' Baird, 1957<ref>{{cite journal |first1=D. |last1=Baird |year=1957 |title=Triassic reptile footprint faunules from Milford, New Jersey |journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology |volume=117 |number=5 |pages=449–520}}</ref> *''R. kuletae'' Baird, 1957<ref name=PtaNeid2004>{{cite journal|first1=T. |last1=Ptaszyński |first2=G. |last2=Niedźwiedzki |year=2004 |title=Late Permian vertebrate tracks from the Tumlin Sandstone, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=49 |number=2 |pages=289–320 |url=http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.agro-article-4525ea34-65e7-45d6-a14e-1331ce5c5d54 |access-date=30 November 2021}}</ref> *''R. majus'' Demathieu, 1967<ref>{{cite journal|first1=G.R. |last1=Demathieu |year=1970 |title=Empreintes de Pas de Vertébrés du Trias de la Bordure Nord-Est du Massif Central (Vertebrate Footprints from the Triassic of the Northeast Border of the Massif Central] |journal=Cahiers de Paléontologie |pages=1–211}}</ref> *''R. maximus'' Gand, 1974<ref>{{cite journal|first1=G. |last1=Gand |year=1974 |title=Une nouvelle espèce ichnologique des Grès à Empreintes du Trias Moyen [A new ichnological species from the Middle Triassic Grès à Empreintes] |journal=Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle et des Amis du Muséum d'Autun |volume=70 |pages=10–16}}</ref> *''R. minutipes'' Maidwell, 1914<ref name=DematheiuHaubold1972/> *''R. pallinii'' Conti ''et al.'', 1977<ref name=PtaNeid2004/> *''R. palmatus'' Lull, 1942<ref>{{cite journal |first1=R.S. |last1=Lull |year=1942 |title=Chugwater footprints from Wyoming |journal=American Journal of Science |volume=240 |issue=7 |pages=500–504|doi=10.2475/ajs.240.7.500 |bibcode=1942AmJS..240..500L |doi-access=free }}</ref> *''R. petri'' Demathieu, 1966<ref>{{cite journal|first1=G. |last1=Demathieu |year=1966 |title=Rhynchosauroides petri et Spingopus ferox, nouvelles empreintes de Reptiles de grès triasiques de la bordure Nord-Est du Massif Central [Rhynchosauroides petri and Spingopus ferox, new reptile footprints from the Triassic sandstones of the northeast border of the Massif Central] |journal=Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série D |volume=263 |pages=482–486}}</ref> *''R. pusillus'' Haubold, 1966<ref name=DematheiuHaubold1972/> *''R. rdzaneki'' Ptaszynski, 2000<ref name=KleinEtal2011>{{cite journal |last1=Klein |first1=Hendrik |last2=Voigt |first2=Sebastian |last3=Saber |first3=Hafid |last4=Schneider |first4=Jörg W. |last5=Hminna |first5=Abdelkbir |last6=Fischer |first6=Jan |last7=Lagnaoui |first7=Abdelouahed |last8=Brosig |first8=Andreas |title=First occurrence of a Middle Triassic tetrapod ichnofauna from the Argana Basin (Western High Atlas, Morocco) |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |date=July 2011 |volume=307 |issue=1–4 |pages=218–231 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.05.021|bibcode=2011PPP...307..218K |s2cid=128396482 }}</ref> *''R. rectipes'' Beasley, 1911<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Klein |first1=Hendrik |last2=Voigt |first2=Sebastian |last3=Hminna |first3=Abdelkbir |last4=Saber |first4=Hafid |last5=Schneider |first5=Jörg |last6=Hmich |first6=Driss |title=Early Triassic Archosaur-Dominated Footprint Assemblage from the Argana Basin (Western High Atlas, Morocco) |journal=Ichnos |date=31 August 2010 |volume=17 |issue=3 |pages=215–227 |doi=10.1080/10420940.2010.510030|bibcode=2010Ichno..17..215K |s2cid=140685089 }}</ref> *''R. retroversipes'' da Silva ''et al.'', 2008<ref name=daSilvaEtal2012/> *''R. santanderensis'' Demathieu and Saiz de Omeñaca, 1977<ref name=daSilvaEtal2012/> *''R. schochardti'' von Lilienstern, 1939<ref>{{cite journal|first1=H. |last1=Klein |first2=S.G. |last2=Lucas |year=2010 |title=Review of the tetrapod ichnofauna of the Moenkopi Formation/Group (Early-Middle Triassic) of the American Southwest |journal=New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin |volume=50 |pages=1–67}}</ref> *''R. sphaerodactylus'' Demathieu, 1971<ref>{{cite journal|first1=G. |last1=Demathieu |year=1971 |title=Cinq nouvelles espèces d'empreintes de Reptiles du Trias de la bordure nord-edt du Massif Central |trans-title=Five new species of reptile footprints from the Triassic of the northeastern border of the Massif Central |journal=Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série D |volume=272 |pages=812–814}}</ref> *''R. tirolicus'' Abel, 1926<ref name=KleinEtal2011/> *''R. triangulus'' Gand, 1977<ref>{{cite journal |first1=G. |last1=Gand |year=1977 |title=Note sure un nouvel assemblage à traces de Vertébrés de l'Autunois. Son interprétation géologique [Note on a new assemblage with vertebrate traces from the Autunois. Its geological interpretation] |journal=Bulletin trimestriel de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle et des Amis du Muséum d'Autun |volume=82 |pages=9–16}}</ref> *''R. virgiliae'' Demathieu ''et al.'', 1978<ref name=daSilvaEtal2012/> {{div col end}}

== See also == {{Portal|Dinosaurs|Palaeontology}} * List of dinosaur ichnogenera

== References == {{Reflist}}

Category:Reptile trace fossils