Carnosaur Utah Dinosaur Footprint

$60.00

A trace fossil found in the Clark Mountains of San Bernardino County Aztec Sandstone Formation.

Description

Carnosaur Utah Dinosaur Footprint is museum quality polyurethane cast. The Carnosaur Utah dinosaur footprint is made in the USA. Measures 19.5 inches long, 12.75 inches wide and is 4 inches in height. Footprint is hollow and weighs approximately 3 lbs. Shipping weight is 30 lbs. due to size of product.

A trace fossil found in the Clark Mountains of San Bernardino County Aztec Sandstone Formation. Trace fossil uncovered in a coal mine of Utah. Carnosaur, any of the dinosaurs belonging to the taxonomic group Carnosauria, a subgroup of the bipedal, flesh-eating theropod dinosaurs that evolved into predators of large herbivorous dinosaurs.

While it originally contained a wide assortment of giant theropods that were not closely related, the group has since been defined to encompass only the allosaurs and their closest kin.

However, with the description and publication in 2019 of Asfaltovenator vialidadi, a basal allosauroid curiously displaying both primitive and derived features seen in Tetanurae, the new phylogenetic analysis has found Megalosauroidea to be a basal grade of carnosaurs in respect to Allosauroidea; thus significantly expanding Carnosauria’s inclusiveness towards its original context.

Distinctive characteristics of carnosaurs include large eyes, a long narrow skull and modifications of the legs and pelvis such as the thigh (femur) being longer than the shin (tibia).

Carnosaurs first appeared in the Middle Jurassic, around 176 mya. The last definite known carnosaurs, the carcharodontosaurs, became extinct in the Turonian epoch of the Cretaceous, roughly 90 mya; reportedly later remains of carcharodontosaurids, from the Campanian and Maastrichtian epochs, are possibly misidentified remains of abelisaurids.

The phylogenetically problematic megaraptorans, which may not be carnosaurs, became extinct around 84 mya. Remains probably belonging to carcharodontosaurids have been found from the late Maastrichtian 70 to 66 million years ago in Brazil.

Carnosauria has traditionally been used as a dumping ground for all large theropods. Even non-dinosaurs, such as the rauisuchian Teratosaurus, were once considered carnosaurs. However, analysis in the 1980s and 1990s revealed that other than size, the group shared very few characteristics, making it polyphyletic.

Most former carnosaurs (such as the megalosaurids, the spinosaurids, and the ceratosaurs) were reclassified as more primitive theropods. Others (such as the tyrannosaurids) that were more closely related to birds were placed in Coelurosauria.

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Additional information

Weight 30 lbs
Dimensions 19.5 × 12.75 × 4 in