Jindongornipes

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]

Jindongornipes
Trace fossil classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Ichnofamily: †Jindongornipodidae
Ichnogenus: †Jindongornipes

Footnotes
  1. "Paleoecology of the Tracksites," McCrea and Sarjeant (2001); page 474.
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gollark: Which is also a bad thing to base government policy on.
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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.


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