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Deltapodus
Holotype trackway of D. ibiricus including hand and footprints
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Ichnogenus: Deltapodus
Whyte & Romano, 1994
Type ichnospecies
Deltapodus brodricki
Whyte & Romano, 1994
Other species
  • Deltapodus curriei
    Xing et al., 2013[1]
  • Deltapodus ibericus
    Cobos et al., 2010[2]

Deltapodus is an ichnogenus of stegosaurian dinosaur footprint. Three ichnospecies have been described in the genus: Deltapodus brodricki from England and the United States, Deltapodus ibericus from Spain and Portugal, and Deltapodus curriei from China. Other tracks referable to the genus but not assignable to a species are also known.

The type species, D. brodricki, is known from the Saltwick Formation of England and the Morrison Formation of the United States.[3][4] D. curriei is known from the Tugulu Group of China, and may represent the tracks of the stegosaur genus Wuerhosaurus.[5] D. ibericus is known from the Lourinhã Formation of Portugal and the Villar del Arzobispo Formation of Spain.[6][7] Tracks of indeterminate Deltapodus species are known from the Lameta Formation of India and the Iouaridène Formation of Morocco.[8][9]

The stegosaur Dacentrurus and the possible variation in heel pad size based on D. ibiricus tracks

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