Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

A revised name and new insights into the Middle Jurassic sauropod trackways from Portugal. A correction of Santos et al. 2009

Vanda F. Santos, José J. Moratalla, Rafael Royo-Torres, Matteo Belvedere, Diego Castanera, Luis M.P. Ceríaco, Pedro Mocho, Marc Merino, Christian A. Meyer, and Lara Sciscio

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 69 (4), 2024: 587-590 doi:10.4202/app.01167.2024

The Galinha dinosaur tracksite (Portugal) was declared a Natural Monument in 1996 and is currently designated as Ourém/Torres Novas Dinosaur Footprints Natural Monument. This tracksite yields a completely new and unique morphology of sauropod tracks from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian–Bathonian). This new morphotype was named Polyonyx by Santos et al. (2009). However, recently it has been brought to our attention that this ichnotaxon name “Polyonyx” is preoccupied by the porcellanid decapod Polyonyx Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae). The priority is given to the latter and to avoid homonymy, the former is issued the new replacement name Galinhapodus igen. nov., creating the new replacement combination name Galinhapodus gomesi.

Vanda F. Santos [vafsantos@fc.ul.pt; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5842-7857], Departamento de Geologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal; Instituto Dom Luiz (FCUL), Campo Grande, 1749-016, Lisboa, Portugal; Departamento de Geología, Geografía y Medio Ambiente (Grupo de Investigación PaleoIbérica), Universidad de Alcalá, Spain. José J. Moratalla [j.moratalla@igme.es; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4949-7666], Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME-CSIC). Departamento de Geología y Subsuelo. Ríos Rosas, 23. 28003 Madrid, Spain. Rafael Royo-Torres [royotorres@unizar.es; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5116-3000], Grupo Beagle-IUCA, Departamento Didácticas Específicas, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universidad de Zaragoza, C/Atarazanas 4, 44003, Teruel, Spain. Matteo Belvedere [matteo.belvedere@unifi.it; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0135-4455], Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Firenze, via G. la Pira 4, 50121, Firenze, Italy. Diego Castanera [castanera@fundaciondinopolis.org; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3950-1630], Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel- Dinópolis/Museo Aragonés de Paleontología, Teruel, Spain. Luis M.P. Ceríaco [luis.ceriaco@cibio.up.pt; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0591-9978], CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal; BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485-661, Vairão, Portugal. Pedro Mocho [p.mochopaleo@gmail.com; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3348-5572], Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Edifício C6, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal; Departamento de Geologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal; Grupo de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Avda. Esparta s/n, 28232 Las Rozas de Madrid, Spain. Marc Merino [marc.merig@gmail.com; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5482-4078], C/ Nou 7, Cubelles, Barcelona, Spain. Christian A. Meyer [chris.meyer@unibas.ch; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5069-8924], Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 32, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland; Museo de Historia Natural Alcide d’Orbigny, Avenida Potosi N-1458 Cochabamba, Bolivia. Lara Sciscio [lara.sciscio@jurassica.ch; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4178-2881], Jurassica Museum, Porrentruy, Switzerland; Department of Geosciences, University Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.


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