Tetrapodium

Tetrapodium
Temporal range: Middle Triassic–Early Jurassic
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Ichnogenus: †Tetrapodium
Gürich, 1926

Tetrapodium is an ichnogenus of fossil footprints found in the Etjo Sandstone and Omingonde Formations (Tetrapodium elmenhorsti) of Namibia.[1] The Etjo Sandstone fossils were initially identified as rounded, featureless depressions presumed to have been made by a quadrupedal animal, but more recent examination in 2016 could not identify such tracks and concluded they are most likely non-biogenic features of the rock surface.[2]

  1. ^ Pickford, 1995, p.62
  2. ^ Wagensommer, A.; Latiano, M.; Mocke, H. B.; D'Orazi Porchetti, S. (2016). "Dinosaur diversity in an Early Jurassic African desert: the significance of the Etjo Sandstone ichnofauna at the Otjihaenamaparero locality (Namibia)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 281 (2): 155–182. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2016/0593.