Characichnos

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Characichnos
Temporal range:
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Trace fossil classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Superclass: Tetrapoda
Ichnogenus: †Characichnos
Whyte & Romano, 2001
Type ichnospecies
†Characichnos tridactylus
Whyte & Romano, 2001

Characichnos (meaning "score trace") is an ichnogenus of possibly dinosaurian tetrapod footprint. It includes a single species, C. tridactylus, known from prints found in the Middle Jurassic Saltwick Formation of Yorkshire, United Kingdom.[1]

Description

Characichnos traces were created by a "punting" tetrapod, meaning that the animal was drifting or partially buoyant in a body of water, and touching or pushing off from the ground with the feet.[2]

Paleoecology

Outcrop of the Saltwick Formation

Other fossils from the Saltwick Formation consist of stegosaurian footprints and a caudal vertebra belonging to an eusauropod, nicknamed "Alan".[3][4]

See also

References

  1. S2CID 128891012
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  2. ^ Klein, Hendrik; G. Lucas, Spencer (16 April 2021). The Triassic Tetrapod Footprint Record. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. p. 58.
  3. ^ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  4. PMID 26030865
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