Kouphichnium isp.


Description: Kouphichnium is a horizontally oriented, bilaterally symmetrical trackway that can be quite variable but in best examples shows "birdfoot"-like footprints in association with a medial dragmark. Probable tracemaker was a limulid (horseshoe crab) in either marine or nonmarine environments.

Age: Triassic
Formation: Chinle
Location: Arizona, USA
Collector: S. Hasiotis
Photographer: A. J. Martin
Comments: The "birdlike" footprints and medial dragmark from the telson of the horseshoe crab are very well preserved in this specimen.

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