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Trace fossil · Locomotion

Tetrapod trackways

Footprints of the front and hind feet, often with toe marks.

Behavior
Locomotion
Likely maker
Four-limbed vertebrates.
Setting
The textbook example is from Joggins, Nova Scotia.
Tetrapod footprints, Joggins
Tetrapod footprints, Joggins. Michael C. Rygel via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source

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Sources

Rygel & Quinton, Sedimentary Geology 9.6: Trace Fossils