Jindongornipes
| Jindongornipes | |
|---|---|
| Trace fossil classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Ichnofamily: | † |
| Ichnogenus: | † 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.