''Tetrapodium'' is an
ichnogenus of
fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved ...
footprints found in the
Etjo Sandstone and
Omingonde Formation
The Omingonde Formation is an Early Triassic, Early to Middle Triassic (Anisian to Ladinian) geologic Formation (geology), formation, part of the Karoo Supergroup, in the western Otjozondjupa Region and northeastern Erongo Region of north-central N ...
s (''Tetrapodium elmenhorsti'') of Namibia.
[Pickford, 1995, p.62] 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.
See also
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List of dinosaur ichnogenera
References
Bibliography
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Vertebrate trace fossils
Omingonde Formation
Fossils of Namibia
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