Genus
Valid Extinct

Syntarsus

Raath 1969
Etymology Tarse réuni (en un seul os)

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
11
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Syntarsus
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Cleveland Museum of Natural History Coelophysis block, originally AMNH Block XII collected in 1948 by Colbert and crew. © Paleeoguy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Coelophysoidea Superfamily
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Syntarsus Genus
Fossil sites 11 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
7
🇿🇦 South Africa
4
Geological formations
Kayenta
6
Elliot
4
Moenave
1
Temporal distribution
Pliensbachian (192.9–184.2 Ma)
4
Sinemurian (199.5–192.9 Ma)
6
Rhaetian (205.7–201.4 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Syntarsus kayentakatae 201 Ma
Images 10
Bibliography
Original description
M. A. Raath. 1969. A new coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Forest Sandstone of Rhodesia. Arnoldia (Rhodesia) 4(28):1-254
Bibliography (5)
M. T. Carrano. 2021. Fossil Vertebrate Collections, Texas Memorial Museum / Texas Science & Natural History Museum
B. T. Breeden and T. B. Rowe. 2020. New specimens of Scutellosaurus lawleri Colbert,1981, from the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation in Arizona elucidate the early evolution of thyreophoran dinosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40(4):e1791894:1-32 DOI ↗
S. G. Lucas and A. B. Heckert. 2001. Theropod dinosaurs and the Early Jurassic age of the Moenave Formation, Arizona-Utah, USA. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 2001(7):435-448 DOI ↗
T. Rowe. 1989. A new species of the theropod dinosaur <i>Syntarsus</i> from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(2):125-136 DOI ↗
J. W. Kitching and M. A. Raath. 1984. Fossils from the Elliot and Clarens Formations (Karoo Sequence) of the northeastern Cape, Orange Free State and Lesotho, and a suggested biozonation based on tetrapods. Palaeontologia Africana 25:111-125