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Gruipedidae Sarjeant and Langston 1994

  • 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

Notes

Published as part of Abbassi, Nasrollah, Khoshyar, Masoumeh, Lucas, Spencer G. & Esmaeili, Farid, 2021, Extensive vertebrate tracksite from the Upper Red Formation (middle-late Miocene), west Zanjan, northwestern Iran, pp. 101-116 in Fossil Record 24 (1) on page 109, DOI: 10.5194/fr-24-101-2021, http://zenodo.org/record/11359797

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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.