Iranosauripus

{{Short description|Dinosaur footprint}}

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| fossil_range = Middle Triassic-Early Jurassic, {{fossilrange|Anisian|Pliensbachian}}

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| taxon = Iranosauripus

| authority = Lapparent & Nowgol Sadat, 1975

| type_ichnospecies = {{extinct}}Iranosauripus zerabensis

| type_ichnospecies_authority = Lapparent & Nogwol Sadat, 1975

| synonyms =

• Iranosaurus Lapparent & Nogwol Sadat, 1975

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Iranosauripus is an ichnogenus of dinosaur footprint discovered in Iran that supposedly belonged to a theropod.M. T. Carrano. 2020. Taxonomic opinions on the Dinosauria. Iranosauripus supposedly existed during Middle Triassic-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{{cite book |last=Glut |first=Donald F. |title=Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia |edition=3rd supplement |year=2003 |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |isbn=0-7864-1166-X |chapter=Appendix: Dinosaur Tracks and Eggs |pages=[https://archive.org/details/dinosaursencyclo00glut_2/page/613 613–652] |chapter-url-access=registration |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/dinosaursencyclo00glut_2 |url=https://archive.org/details/dinosaursencyclo00glut_2/page/613 }} although the first true dinosaurs, such as Eoraptor, did not exist until the Late Triassic.{{cite journal |last1=Brusatte |first1=Stephen L. |author-link1=Stephen L. Brusatte |last2=Benton |first2=Michael J. |last3=Ruta |first3=Marcello |author-link3=Marcello Ruta |last4=Lloyd |first4=Graeme T. |date=September 12, 2008 |title=Superiority, Competition, and Opportunism in the Evolutionary Radiation of Dinosaurs |url=https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/files/8232088/PDF_Brusatteetal2008SuperiorityCompetition.pdf |journal=Science |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science |volume=321 |issue=5895 |pages=1485–1488 |doi=10.1126/science.1161833 |bibcode=2008Sci...321.1485B |issn=0036-8075 |pmid=18787166 |access-date=2019-10-22|hdl=20.500.11820/00556baf-6575-44d9-af39-bdd0b072ad2b |s2cid=13393888 |hdl-access=free }} The type ichnospecies, I. zerabensis was 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