Breviparopus (ichnotype B. taghbaloutensis) is the name given to an ichnogenus of dinosaur, having been made by an unknown genus of sauropod. As an ichnogenus, the taxon is represented by (and named for) a 90-metre (295 ft) long series of fossil tracks, or ichnites, found in the spring of 1979 in the Atlas Mountains of present-day Morocco. At the time, this area would have been part of the splitting Gondwana supercontinent. The animal that produced the Breviparopus tracks is rumored to be one of the largest dinosaurs, though its exact size has been the subject of much debate.[1]
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brachiosaurs, including Breviparopus scaled to the known 90 cm-wide tracks from Morocco. First life restoration of Breviparopus by Nima Sassani, same artist...
Largest prehistoric animals Largest and heaviest animals Dinosaur size Breviparopus Patagotitan Paul, Gregory S. (Autumn 1994). "Big Sauropods - Really,...
35 m (115 ft) in length and 70–95 t (154,000–209,000 lb) in weight. Breviparopus taghbaloutensis was mentioned in The Guinness Book of Records as the...
as Brontopodus (Farlow et al., 1989) and the narrow track related to Breviparopus (Dutuit et al., 1980 cf. Farlow, 1992). As the Parabrontopodus track...
total length that could be at least 27 m (89 ft). The Middle Jurassic Breviparopus taghbaloutensis was mentioned in The Guinness Book of Records as the...
Genus Species Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images Breviparopus B. isp. El Mers Tracksite I El Mers Tracksite II El MersTracksite III Oued Tamghilt...
The footprints of Breviparopus may have belong to a genus with a similar pes to that of Haplocanthosaurus, yet it doesn't mean they were made by a Neosauropod...
Argentina Bressanichnus Non-Avian Coelurosaur 99.7 to 94.3 Ma Argentina Breviparopus Sauropod 167.7 to 150.8 Ma Morocco Switzerland Brontopodus Sauropod...
interpretation can be found in Andrews and Walton (1990). A series of Breviparopus sauropod tracks and narrow gauge trackways were identified in beds 9b...
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