''Rhynchosauroides'' is an ichnogenus, a form taxon based on footprints. The organism producing the footprints was likely a

lepidosaur The Lepidosauria (, from Greek meaning ''scaled lizards'') is a subclass or superorder of reptiles, containing the orders Squamata and Rhynchocephalia. Squamata includes snakes, lizards, and amphisbaenians. Squamata contains over 9,000 species, m ...

and may have been a

sphenodont Rhynchocephalia (; ) is an order of lizard-like reptiles that includes only one living species, the tuatara (''Sphenodon punctatus'') of New Zealand. Despite its current lack of diversity, during the Mesozoic rhynchocephalians were a diverse gro ...

, an ancestor of the modern

tuatara Tuatara (''Sphenodon punctatus'') are reptiles endemic to New Zealand. Despite their close resemblance to lizards, they are part of a distinct lineage, the order Rhynchocephalia. The name ''tuatara'' is derived from the Māori language and m ...

. The footprint consists of five digits, of which the fifth is shortened and the first highly shortened.

Species

*''R. beasleyi'' Nopsca, 1923 *''R. bornemanni'' Haubold, 1966 *''R. brunswickii'' Ryan and Willard, 1947 *''R. gangresci'' da Silva ''et al.'', 2012 *''R. hyperbates'' Baird, 1957 *''R. kuletae'' Baird, 1957 *''R. majus'' Demathieu, 1967 *''R. maximus'' Gand, 1974 *''R. minutipes'' Maidwell, 1914 *''R. pallinii'' Conti ''et al.', 1977 *''R. palmatus'' Lull, 1942 *''R. petri'' Demathieu, 1966 *''R. pusillus'' Haubold, 1966 *''R. rdzaneki'' Ptaszynski, 2000 *''R. rectipes'' Beasley, 1911 *''R. retroversipes'' da Silva ''et al.'', 2008 *''R. santanderensis'' Demathieu and Saiz de Omeñaca, 1977 *''R. schochardti'' von Lilienstern, 1939 *''R. sphaerodactylus'' Demathieu, 1971 *''R. tirolicus'' Abel, 1926 *''R. triangulus'' Gand, 1977 *''R. virgiliae'' Demathieu ''et al.'', 1978

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