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Article: First record of footprints of terrestrial vertebrates from the Upper Permian of the Cis-Urals, Russia

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 40
Part: 1
Publication Date: March 1997
Page(s): 157 166
Author(s): Valentin P. Tverdokhlebov, Galina I. Tverdokhlebova, Michael J. Benton and Glenn W. Storrs
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TVERDOKHLEBOV, V. P., TVERDOKHLEBOVA, G. I., BENTON, M. J., STORRS, G. W. 1997. First record of footprints of terrestrial vertebrates from the Upper Permian of the Cis-Urals, Russia. Palaeontology40, 1, 157–166.

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Abstract

The first tetrapod footprints from the Upper Permian of Russia are identified as Anthichnium ichnosp., on the basis of a short track from the Severodvinskian Gorizont (upper Tatarian, uppermost Permian) of Kulchomovo, 75 km east-north-east of Orenburg, southern Pre-Urals basin. The footprints are preserved in a ripple-marked sandstone unit, and appear to show an animal swimming, then crawling through wet marginal sediment, and finally moving on to firmer substrate. The sedimentary setting is an enclosed semi-arid foreland basin, close to high mountains. An ephemeral stream-playa lake complex developed, with long emergent periods and short episodes of flooding and stream development. The footprints were probably produced by a small temnospondyl amphibian with four fingers and five toes.
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