Jindongornipes
Appearance
Jindongornipes | |
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Trace fossil classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Ichnofamily: | †Jindongornipodidae |
Ichnogenus: | †Jindongornipes Lockley, Yang, Matsukawa, Fleming & Lim, 1992 |
Jindongornipes was a Cretaceous bird ichnogenus. Similar fossil footprints have been discovered in the Dunvegan Formation of British Columbia. These were among the first known Cretaceous fossil bird tracks in western Canada.[1]
Footnotes
- ^ "Paleoecology of the Tracksites," McCrea and Sarjeant (2001); page 474.
References
- McCrea, R. T. and W. A S. Sarjeant. 2001. New ichnotaxa of bird and mammal footprints from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Gates Formation of Alberta; pp. 453–478 in D. H. Tanke, and K. Carpenter, (eds.), Mesozoic Vertebrate Life. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis.