Dimetropus
{{Short description|Trace fossil}}
{{Ichnobox
| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Permian|Triassic|Permian-Triassic}}
| image = Dimetropus.JPG
| image_caption = Dimetropus
| taxon = Dimetropus
| authority = Romber and Price 1940
| type_ichnospecies =
| type_ichnospecies_authority =
| subdivision_ranks = Ichnospecies
| subdivision =
- D. leisnerianus Geinitz 1863
- D. latus Heyler and Montenat 1980
}}
Dimetropus is a synapsid ichnogenus commonly found in assemblages of ichnofossils dating to the Permian{{cite journal |last1=Lucas |first1=Spencer G. |last2=Lerner |first2=Allan J. |last3=Haubold |first3=Hartmut |title=First record of Amphisauropus and Varanopus in the Lower Permian Abo Formation, central New Mexico |journal=Hallesches Jahrb. Geowiss B |date=2001 |volume=29 |pages=69–78 |citeseerx= 10.1.1.503.8731}} to Triassic{{cite journal |first1=T. |last1=Ptaszyński |first2=G. |last2=Niedźwiedzki |year=2004 |title=Late Permian vertebrate tracks from the Tumlin Sandstone, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=49 |number=2 |pages=289–320 |url=http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.agro-article-4525ea34-65e7-45d6-a14e-1331ce5c5d54 |access-date=19 January 2022}} in Europe{{cite journal |last1=Voigt |first1=Sebastian |last2=Berman |first2=David S |last3=Henrici |first3=Amy C. |title=First well-established track-trackmaker association of paleozoic tetrapods based on Ichniotherium trackways and diadectid skeletons from the Lower Permian of Germany |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |date=12 September 2007 |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=553–570 |doi=10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[553:FWTAOP]2.0.CO;2|s2cid=131256847 }} and North America. Analysis of trackways of Dimetropus provides evidence that the tracks were left by diadectids or non-therapsid synapsids ("pelycosaurs").{{cite journal |last1=Romano |first1=Marco |last2=Citton |first2=Paolo |last3=Nicosia |first3=Umberto |title=Corroborating trackmaker identification through footprint functional analysis: the case study of Ichniotherium and Dimetropus |journal=Lethaia |date=January 2016 |volume=49 |issue=1 |pages=102–116 |doi=10.1111/let.12136|bibcode=2016Letha..49..102R }}
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