The majority of fossil trackways are foot impressions on land, or subsurface ...
The earliest known tetrapod fossils, from the Middle Devonian
A fossil track or ichnite is a fossilized footprint. This is a type of trace fossil. A fossil trackway is a sequence of fossil tracks left by ...
A trackway is two or more consecutive tracks made by the same animal. Many mammals and birds leave a walking trackway that shows an angle between the ...
left behind when an animal's hand or foot pushes into the ground is called a track.
Ichnofossil – Scientific term for trace fossil; ichno is a Greek word root meaning trace or track. Ichnologist – A scientist who studies trace fossils. Synapsid – The ...
and width of a track as well as the lengths of the impressions of digits (fingers or toes) ...
These trace fossils represent the earliest known trackways.
It is also common to find tracks in sediments that were deposited along the shores, or ... Large herds of dinosaurs left trackways as they moved north and south along ...
This page looks at trackways of modern sea turtles and their ancient relatives.