| Chelonipus Temporal range: | |
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Trace fossil classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Ichnofamily: | †Chelonipedidae |
| Ichnogenus: | †Chelonipus (Vilienstern) Sarjeant & Langston, 1994 |
| Ichnospecies | |
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Chelonipus is a trace fossil ichnogenus attributed to turtles and testudines.[1] Chelonipus ichnospecies are known from the a number of locations including the Early Triassic of Wyoming and Utah,[1] Late Jurassic Morrison Formation , the Late Paleocene-Early Eocene Chuckanut Formation, and the Eocene of Texas.[1]
Referecnes
- 1 2 3 Mustoe, G.E. (2019). "Lower Eocene footprints from northwest Washington, USA. Part 1: Reptile tracks". Geosciences. 9 (321): 1–19. Bibcode:2019Geosc...9..321M. doi:10.3390/geosciences9070321.
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