Prorotodactylus Ptaszynski, 2000

JUNIOR SYNONYM(S): N/A

DESCRIPTION: Long striding trackways with small, lacertoid, pentadactyl pes and manus imprints. Manus overstepped laterally by the pes. Pes outward, manus rotated inward with respect to the midline. Digitigrade pes with digits I-IV increasing in length, II-IV subparallel and tightly “bunched” with low divarication angle between digits II and IV. Digit I everted. Digit V rarely impressed, if present, in a postero-lateral position relative to digits I-IV. Manus semiplantigrade, of chirotheroid shape, compact and rounded with poster-laterally postioned digit V mostly impressed. Digit III always longest, followed by digits IV, II, and I which is shortest.

BEHAVIOR(S): Repichnia

ENVIRONMENTAL SETTINGS: Continental; terrestrial

POSSIBLE TRACEMAKERS: Possibly dinosauromorphs, archosaurs

GEOLOGIC RANGE: Lower Triassic

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES: Emended by Klein and Niedzwiedzki, 2012.

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