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Gigandipus

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Gigandipus
Temporal range: Norian–Cenomanian
Early Jurassic (Hettangian)-aged Gigandipus footprint from the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site, Arizona
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Ichnofamily: Gigandipodidae
Ichnogenus: Gigandipus
Hitchcock, 1845

Gigandipus is an ichnogenus of theropod dinosaur footprint. It is known from the Norian-Cenomanian and it is most well known from the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site (Moenave Formation) of Utah, where it was likely the apex predator.

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Glut, Donald F. (2003). "Appendix: Dinosaur Tracks and Eggs". Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia. 3rd Supplement. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 613–652. ISBN 0-7864-1166-X.