Vertebrate Footprints from the Red-Beds of Texas. II

1 August 1930

journal article
research article
Published by University of Chicago Press in The Journal of Geology

Vol. 38 (6) , 548-565
https://doi.org/10.1086/623755

Abstract

This Permian formation in Texas contains many trails of insects and myriapods, as well as borings and numerous ichnites indicating the presence of small branchiosaurian and microsaurian amphibians and reptiles of a varanoid type. The following are listed: Amphibia, Caudata Erpetopus willistoni; Microsauria, Microsauropus acutipes,* M. clarki, M. orthodactylus* (p. 557), M. parvus* (p. 554); Reptilia, Varanopus curvidactylus, V. impressus,* V. palmatus, V. (?) elrodi, V. didactylus* (p. 558); SOLIDOPUS (p. 563), type S. perissodactylus* (p. 563); Laoporus wyldei* (p. 561), L. sp. (?)* (p. 561). Reference is made to the Reptilia, Hoplichnus aquus Hitchcock and (?) Hyloidichnus bifurcatus Gilmore from the Grand Canyon.

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