Characichnos Temporal range:
Middle Jurassic (
Aalenian), ~
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Trace fossil classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Superclass: | Tetrapoda |
Ichnogenus: | †
Characichnos Whyte & Romano, 2001 |
Type ichnospecies | |
†Characichnos tridactylus Whyte & Romano, 2001
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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]
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]
Other fossils from the Saltwick Formation consist of stegosaurian footprints and a caudal vertebra belonging to an eusauropod, nicknamed " Alan". [3] [4]
Characichnos Temporal range:
Middle Jurassic (
Aalenian), ~
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Trace fossil classification
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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]
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]
Other fossils from the Saltwick Formation consist of stegosaurian footprints and a caudal vertebra belonging to an eusauropod, nicknamed " Alan". [3] [4]