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    Chelichnus is an ichnogenus of Permian tetrapod footprint. The name means tortoise traces, because the shape of the prints was originally mistakenly thought...
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    name Chelichnus, meaning "turtle track" to replace Owen's use of Testudo, but preserved the specific epithet "duncani". 1851 More Permian Chelichnus tracks...
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    Name Common Ichnogenera Substrate Inferred Paleoenvironment Chelichnus (Laoporus) Chelichnus, Brasilichnium Unconsolidated, larger-grained sands Aeolian...
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    Vertebrate tracks known as Chelichnus gigas from the Coconino Sandstone in Grand Canyon....
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    palaeontologist Rev William Buckland about the tracks. A cast of the tracks of Chelichnus duncani can be found in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh....
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  • Fossil footprints of Chelichnus duncani...
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  • Duncan describes his discovery of the fossil footmarks of quadrupeds (Chelichnus duncani) in Permian red sandstone in south west Scotland, the first scientific...
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  • N. innovatus The largest reported lizard trackway in South Korea. cf. Chelichnus Sacheon Turtle trackway; first identified as Chelonipus isp. Ranipes indeterminate...
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    2012, Rafael Costa da Silva and colleagues proposed that the ichnogenus Chelichnus, widely distributed in Permian desert facies (fossil dunes) of Europe...
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    Basin, southern Brazil, assigned to the ichnotaxa Dicynodontipus isp. and Chelichnus bucklandi, are described by Francischini et al. (2018). A diverse footprint...
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