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VI.—Notes on Footprints from the Keuper of South Staffordshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. Smith Woodward
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The footprints from the fissile Keuper sandstones of Chillington comprise, in addition to the ordinary Cheirotherian impressions, two interesting series. A number of fragments of rock covered with worm tracks and castings, show several imperfectly preserved footprints of a small five-toed animal, with posterior limbs of much greater size than the anterior; and three portions of comparatively smooth slabs afford evidence of a larger animal, probably of the same genus, of which the impressions of the feet are preserved with remarkable distinctness. There are also singular reticulated markings upon the surface of another small slab from the same beds, which may be interpreted as the impression of reptilian (? or labyrinthodont) skin. (See Fig. 2, p. 217.)

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Geological Magazine , Volume 9 , Issue 5 , May 1902 , pp. 215 - 217
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1902

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