Ardeipeda Panin & Avram, 1962

Abbassi, Nasrollah, Salehi Tinooni, Mohammad, Ghorbani Dehnavi, Mahdi, Shakeri, Safoora & Eshaghi, Ali, 2024, Oligocene vertebrate footprints from the Lower Red Formation, Central Iran, Fossil Record 27 (2), pp. 265-287 : 265-287

Ichnogenus Ardeipeda Panin & Avram, 1962

Type ichnospecies.

Ardeipeda egretta Panin & Avram, 1962 .

Revised diagnosis.

Avian footprints showing four digits, three ( II to IV) directed forward and large, the fourth (digit I) backward and somewhat smaller. The interdigital angles between digits II and III and between digits III and IV are less than 70 °. The axis of digit I corresponds, or almost corresponds, with that of digit III, the interdigital angle between digits I and II being almost equal to that between digits I and IV. Webbing absent (emended from Sarjeant and Langston 1994).

Discussion.

Numerous tetradactyl non-webbed small to large footprints have been named from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic deposits, and include: