Sauroidichnites

Sauroidichnites is an ichnotaxon of saurian reptiles.^[1] The name was originally used by Edward Hitchcock as a higher group name rather than a specific ichnogenus, and thus the name does not have priority over specific ichnogenus names even if they were first identified as Sauroidichnites.^[2]

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A Sauroidichnites abnormis trackway preserves tracks made by a theropod with "an abnormally positioned toe". This could be a result of physical injury or behavioral in the way the foot is positioned or lifted from the substrate.^[3]

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^ "Fossil Footsteps in Sandstone and Graywacke" by Edward Hitchcock, in The American Journal of Science Volume 32, July 1837. Page 174
^ The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Change across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary, edited by Kevin Padian (1988). Page 263.
^ Molnar, R. E., 2001, Theropod paleopathology: a literature survey: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, p. 337-363.

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[1] "Fossil Footsteps in Sandstone and Graywacke" by Edward Hitchcock, in The American Journal of Science Volume 32, July 1837. Page 174

[2] The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Change across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary, edited by Kevin Padian (1988). Page 263.

[molnar-pathology-3] Molnar, R. E., 2001, Theropod paleopathology: a literature survey: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, p. 337-363.

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