Reptilia - Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Full reference: K. Beurlen. 1950. Neue Fährtenfunde aus der Fränkischen Trias [New track discoveries in the Franconian Triassic]. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1950:308-320
Parent taxon: Chirotheriidae according to H. Klein and S. G. Lucas 2021
See also Demathieu 1989, Demathieu and Gand 1973, Demathieu and Haubold 1972, Gand 1974, Gand and Demathieu 2005, Haubold 1969, Haubold 1971, Haubold 1974, Hunt and Lucas 2007, Kuhn 1963, Kuhn 1971, Lucas et al. 2006, Olsen and Galton 1984, Ptaszynski 2000, Rainforth 2003 and Weems 2006
Sister taxa: Brachychirotherium tintanti, Chelonichnium, Chirotherium, Chirotherium angustum, Chirotherium catalaunicum, Chirotherium huberi, Chirotherium ibericum, Chirotherium lulli, Chirotherium wondrai, Dahutherium, Deuterosauropodopus, Deuterosauropodopus minor, Isochirotherium, Pachysaurichnium, Parasynaptichnium, Paratrisauropus, Pentichnus, Protochirotherium, Pseudochirotherium, Sauropodopus, Shimmelia, Swinnertonichnus, Synaptichnium, Thecodontichnus fucinii
Subtaxa: Brachychirotherium circaparvum Brachychirotherium eyermani Brachychirotherium gallicum Brachychirotherium harrasense Brachychirotherium hauboldi Brachychirotherium hessei Brachychirotherium kalkowensis Brachychirotherium kuhni Brachychirotherium lorteti Brachychirotherium pachydactylum Brachychirotherium paraparvum Brachychirotherium parvum Brachychirotherium praeparvum Brachychirotherium thuringiacum Brachychirotherium wiorense
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Lesotho (1 collection)
• Triassic of Argentina (1), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), France (20), Germany (3), Italy (3), Morocco (9), the Netherlands (1), Poland (4), Switzerland (1), United States (47: Arizona, Colorado, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia)
Total: 91 collections including 104 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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