Iranosauripus is an ichnogenus of dinosaur footprint found in the Shemshak Group of Iran that supposedly belonged to a theropod.M. T. Carrano. (2020). Taxonomic opinions on the Dinosauria. Iranosauripus supposedly existed during Middle Triassic to Early Jurassic,P. Taquet. (1977). Les découvertes récentes de Dinosaures du Jurassique et du Crétacé en Afrique, au Proche et Moyen-Orient et en Inde [Recent discoveries of dinosaurs from the Jurassic and Cretaceous in Africa, the Near and Middle East, and India]. Mémoire Hors Serie—Société Géologique de France 8:325-330 although the first true dinosaurs, such as Eoraptor, did not exist until the Late Triassic; the age of the specimens has since been refined to 201.6 to 183.0 Ma and further to 182.7 Ma.N. Abbassi, (2014). Dinosaur tracks from the Jurassic Shemshak Group in the central Alborz Mountains (northern Iran). Geologica Carpathica (65), 99-115 (journal article, English)
Discovery and naming The first known footprints were discovered in 1975 in the Shemshak Group in the Alborz Mountains of Iran by Albert-Félix de Lapparent and M. A. Nowgol Sadat, and the type ichnospecies, I. zerabensis was also named in 1975.A. F. d.e. Lapparent and M. A. A. Nowgol Sadat. (1975). Une trace à pas de Dinosaure dans le Lias de l’Elbourz, en Iran. Conséquences de cette découverte [A dinosaur footprints in the Liassic of Elbourz, in Iran. Consequences of this discovery]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série D 280:161-163 Abbassi (2014) described more specimens.
See also
List of dinosaur ichnogenera
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