Global InformationParabrontopodus information
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| Parabrontopodus | |
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| Tracks near the A16 highway, Switzerland | |
Trace fossil classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Ichnogenus: | †Parabrontopodus Lockley, Farlow, & Meyer, 1994 |
| Type ichnospecies | |
| Parabrontopodus mcintoshi Lockley, Farlow, & Meyer, 1994
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Parabrontopodus is an ichnogenus of dinosaur footprint, that was initially described by Lockley et al. in 1994,[1] and was assigned to Sauropoda by Lockley in 2002 and in 2004 by Niedzwiedzki and Pienkowski. Various species through their footprints that are characterized by the association of two impressions left by hand and foot. The acquisition of a specific family is complex, but now in most cases, they have been considered diplodocoids and similar animals. The reason is that their traces left are large, but in proportion to the size, from animals, seem very light because the depth of imprint is low.
Farlow, in 1992, had given a criterion for classifying sauropod tracks. Traces are distinguished wide as Brontopodus (Farlow et al., 1989) and the narrow track related to Breviparopus (Dutuit et al., 1980 cf. Farlow, 1992). As the Parabrontopodus track ratio is 1:5, it is considered narrow by Lockley.
- ^ Lockley, M. G.; J. O. Farlow; C. A. Meyer (1994). "Brontopodus and Parabrontopodus ichnogen. nov. and the significance of wide-and narrow-gauge sauropod trackways". Gaia. 10: 135–145.