Sphingopus
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| Sphingopus Temporal range:
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Trace fossil classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Ichnofamily: | †Parachirotheriidae |
| Ichnogenus: | †Sphingopus Demathieu, 1966 |
| Type ichnospecies | |
| †Sphingopus ferox Demathieu, 1966
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Sphingopus is an ichnogenus of dinosauromorph footprints found in sediments dating to 250 and 228 Ma.[1][2] The exact species which created the Sphingopus tracks have not been identified.
Specimens
[edit | edit source]Sphingopus type footprints are known from two locations. Fossils dating 228–245 million years have been recovered from what appears to have been a lagoon in the Grès d'Antully Formation in Saône-et-Loire, France.[2][3][4][5] More recently, older tracks attributed to this form, dating 246–250 million years ago, have been discovered in the Holy Cross Mountains in Poland.[1]
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