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Trace fossil · Locomotion

Diplichnites

A trackway of two parallel rows of footprints.

Behavior
Locomotion
Likely maker
Arthropods. The textbook's example was made by a giant Pennsylvanian millipede.
Age range
The textbook example is Cambrian (Blackberry Hill, Wisconsin) and another is Pennsylvanian.
Diplichnites, Blackberry Hill, Wisconsin, Cambrian
Diplichnites, Blackberry Hill, Wisconsin, Cambrian. Kenneth C Gass via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source

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Sources

Rygel & Quinton, Sedimentary Geology 9.6: Trace Fossils