A revised name and new insights into the Middle Jurassic sauropod trackways from Portugal. A correction of Santos et al. 2009

Santos, Vanda F.; Moratalla, José J.; Royo-Torres, Rafael; Belvedere, Matteo; Castanera, Diego; Ceríaco, Luis M. P.; Mocho, Pedro; Merino, Marc; Meyer, Christian A.; Sciscio, Lara

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A revised name and new insights into the Middle Jurassic sauropod trackways from Portugal. A correction of Santos et al. 2009

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Santos, Vanda F. ORCID Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Moratalla, José J. ORCID Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
Royo-Torres, Rafael ORCID Universidad de Zaragoza, Teruel, Spain
Belvedere, Matteo ORCID Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Castanera, Diego ORCID Museo Aragonés de Paleontología, Teruel, Spain
Ceríaco, Luis M. P. ORCID Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Mocho, Pedro ORCID Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Merino, Marc ORCID Cubelles, Barcelona, Spain.
Meyer, Christian A. ORCID University of Basel, Switzerland
Sciscio, Lara ORCID University Fribourg

2024

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Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. - Warsaw, Poland: Polish Academy of Sciences. - 2024, vol. 69, no. 4, p. 587–590

English The Galinha dinosaur tracksite (Portugal) was declared a Natural Monument in 1996 and is currently designated as Ourém/Torres Novas Dinosaur Footprints Natural Monument. This tracksite yields a completely new and unique morphology of sauropod tracks from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian–Bathonian). This new morphotype was named Polyonyx by Santos et al. (2009). However, recently it has been brought to our attention that this ichnotaxon name “Polyonyx” is preoccupied by the porcellanid decapod Polyonyx Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae). The priority is given to the latter and to avoid homonymy, the former is issued the new replacement name Galinhapodus igen. nov., creating the new replacement combination name Galinhapodus gomesi.

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Faculté des sciences et de médecine

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Département de Géosciences

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