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Gruipedidae Sarjeant and Langston 1994
Authors/Creators
- 1. Masoumeh Khoshyar & Spencer G. Lucas & Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, 45371 - 38791, Iran
- 2. Farid Esmaeili & New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road N. W., Albuquerque, NM 87104 - 1375, USA
- 3. Department of Surveying Engineering, Faculty of Technology and Engineering, Zanjan Branch,
Description
Morphofamily Gruipedidae Sarjeant and Langston, 1994 Ichnogenus Iranipeda (Lambrecht, 1938)
Emended diagnosis
Large tetradactyl avian track with prominent broad, consistently diverging and acutely tapering digit impressions. Prominent heel pad and hallux impressions present. No traces of webbing present (Doyle et al., 2000).
Type ichnospecies
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Sarjeant and Langston
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Gruipedidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gruipedidae and, 1994 sec. Abbassi, Khoshyar, Lucas & Esmaeili, 2021
References
- Sarjeant, S. A. W. and Langston, J. W.: Vertebrate footprints and invertebrate traces from the Cadronian (Late Eocene) of Trans- Pecos Texas, Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, 86 pp., 1994.
- Lambrecht, K.: Urmiornis abeli n. sp., eine Pliozane Vogelfahrte aus Persien, Palaeobiologica, 6, 242 - 245, 1938.
- Doyle, P., Wood, J. L., and George, G. T.: The shorebird ichnofacies: an example from the Miocene of southern Spain, Geol. Mag., 137, 517 - 536, 2000.