Where: Tucker County, West Virginia (39.2° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° S, 18.8° W)
When: Conemaugh Group, Middle Pennsylvanian (314.6 - 306.9 Ma)
• 320-280 million years ago, the footprints probably represent one of the first groups of creatures to venture landward from prehistoric swamps
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone
•large low-lying swamp region
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Primary reference: T. R. Jake and B. M. Blake, Jr. 1982. 300 Million Year Old Footprints Found in Tucker County. Mountain State Geology 23-25 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 125959: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 27.03.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
? Amphibia indet. Linnaeus 1758 tetrapod |