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Trace fossil

Neosauroides
Temporal range: Albian PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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Genus: Neosauroides
Kim et al., 2017
Type ichnospecies
Neosauroides koreaensis
Kim et al., 2017
Species
  • N. koreanensis Kim et al., 2017
  • N. innovatus Kim et al., 2019

Neosauroides (meaning "new kind of lizard") is an Early Cretaceous (Albian) ichnogenus of lizard found in South Korea and possibly China. N. koreanensis is discovered from the Haman Formation, while N. innovatus is discovered from the Jinju Formation. Trace fossils identified as an indeterminate ichnospecies of Neosauroides have been discovered from the Early Cretaceous Hekou Group of Gansu Province, China.

References

  1. ^ Kim, Kyung Soo; Lim, Jong Deock; Lockley, Martin G.; Kim, Dong Hee; Pinuela, Laura; Yoo, Jae Sang (2019). "Largest Cretaceous lizard track assemblage, new morphotypes and longest trackways comprise diverse components of an exceptional Korean Konservat-Lagerstätten ichnofauna". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 13278. Bibcode:2019NatSR...913278K. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-49442-0. PMC 6746761. PMID 31527673.
  2. Xing, L.D.; Li, D.; Lockley, M.G.; Persons, W.S.; Klein, H.; Yang, J.; Li, L.; Peng, C. (2021). "Saurischian-dominated tracksites and first Cretaceous lizard trackway from China from the Hekou Group (Lower Cretaceous) of Lanzhou-Minhe Basin, Gansu, Northwest China". Historical Biology. 33 (12): 3703–3713. doi:10.1080/08912963.2021.1887863.
Taxon identifiers
Neosauroides koreaensis
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