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English: Lower Triassic fossil footprint (ichnite) of the ichnogenus Chirotherium, probably caused by an early archosaur, and first discovered 1833 in Hildburghausen (Thuringia, Germany). This specimen, however, ist from the Helsby Sandstone of the Storeton Quarry near Liverpool. Its species name is Chirotherium storetonense.[1]
Deutsch: Untertriassisches fossiles Trittsiegel des Ichnogenus Chirotherium, wahrscheinlich verursacht von einem frühen Archosaurier, erstmals entdeckt 1833 in Hildburghausen (Thüringen). Dieses Exemplar stammt jedoch aus dem Helsby-Sandstein des Storeton-Steinbruchs nahe Liverpool, NW-England. Der Name dieser Ichnospezies lautet Chirotherium storetonense.[1]
  1. a b Geoffrey Tresise (2003): Chirotherium and the Quarry Men: The 1838 Discoveries at Storeton Quarry, Cheshire, U.K. Ichnos: An International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces. 10: 77-90 (the respective sandstone slab of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History is figured therein on p. 84, fig. 10), doi:10.1080/10420940390257897.
Date Original upload date was: 9 July 2006
Source English Wikipedia (uploaded image is a cropped and revised version)
Author Ballista

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