Footprint type

Bellatoripes

McCrea et al. 2014

Bellatoripes is a footprint type: the name is for the fossil footprints themselves. The animal that made them is not known for certain. Its footprints are found in rocks 83.6–72.2 million years old in Canada.

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At a glance

Data as of 11 October 2026

83.6–72.2 Ma

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114366

The last non-bird dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago. That's as far from us as the end of this bar.

Named by: McCrea et al. 2014
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Sources
Given by: Paleobiology Database. How it was chosen: PBDB leads.
Described in: R. T. McCrea, L. G. Buckley, J. O. Farlow, M. G. Lockley, P. J. Currie, N. A. Matthews, S. G. Pemberton (2014). A ‘terror of tyrannosaurs’: the first trackways of tyrannosaurids and evidence of gregariousness and pathology in Tyrannosauridae. PLoS ONE 9(7): e103613:1–13. Read it
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medium: Only PBDB gives this; its author and year match the naming authority (McCrea et al. 2014).
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Given by: Paleobiology Database. The publication the Paleobiology Database gives as the authority for this genus name, usually the one that first named and described it.
Dated to: Campanian, 83.6–72.2 million years ago
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Omnisaura calculation83.6–72.2 million years ago, from its dated fossil records
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Given by: Paleobiology Database. How it was chosen: PBDB leads.
Found in: Canada
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low: Only one PBDB record.
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Given by: Paleobiology Database. How it was chosen: Union of all sources (ISO 3166).
Rock formations: Wapiti
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Given by: Paleobiology Database. How it was chosen: Canonical names, automatic and editor-approved matches applied.
Footprint family: Tyrannosauripodidae
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Given by: Paleobiology Database. How it was chosen: PBDB leads.
Parent group: Tyrannosauripodidae
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Given by: Paleobiology Database. How it was chosen: PBDB leads.
Species named in its records: Bellatoripes fredlundi
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Given by: Paleobiology Database (the species its fossil records are identified as).
Known from: Footprints and traces
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Given by: Paleobiology Database (what the name was based on).
Made by: Not known for certain. Footprints rarely show which animal made them.

Sources: Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0)Confidence levels and gaps are Omnisaura's own assessment.

Gaps are answers

What isn't known yet

The animal that made them: not known for certain, as for most footprint types.
Type species: no source we use gives it yet.
Order: no source we use gives it yet.
Common names: no source we use gives it yet.
What it was named after: no source we use gives it yet.
Resting on one source: 5 facts come from a single source with nothing against them (rated medium): name (PBDB); authority (PBDB); parent group (PBDB); family (PBDB); age (headline) (PBDB).

Size and appearance aren't covered yet, and diet and way of life only as PBDB infers them for the wider group. Omnisaura leaves the rest out rather than guess.

Where sources disagree

None open. Where our sources overlap, they agree on everything shown here.

Did it meet…?

Did Bellatoripes meet ?

Same time, different places. Their fossils overlap in age, 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago, but no rock formation holds both.

Going by the ages and rock formations of their dated fossils, as on the map. Compare their fossil sites on the map.

Connections

Genera linked to Bellatoripes by where and when their fossils were found, by classification and by who named them. Select a name to open its page.

Found in the same rocks 8

Genera and other fossil types from the same rock units, from rocks of overlapping age, the most shared fossil sites first.

Hadrosauropodus Pachyrhinosaurus Troodon Boreonykus Edmontosaurus Richardoestesia Saurexallopus Saurornitholestes

Same family: Tyrannosauripodidae 1

Other genera in Tyrannosauripodidae with a full profile.

Tyrannosauripus

Found in Canada 73

Other genera found in Canada, from rocks of overlapping age, the most fossil sites there first.

Saurornitholestes Richardoestesia Centrosaurus Troodon Paronychodon Dromaeosaurus Corythosaurus Chasmosaurus Lambeosaurus Stegoceras Gorgosaurus Prosaurolophus Stenonychosaurus Euoplocephalus Styracosaurus Daspletosaurusand 57 more

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Where this page comes from

Paleobiology DatabaseCC BY 4.0 · fossil records, ages, classification
OmnisauraOmnisaura editorial · confidence levels and gaps
PaleoMAP PaleoCoastlines (Kocsis and Scotese 2021)CC BY 4.0 · ancient coastlines on the small map
Natural EarthPublic domain · today's coastlines