Abstract

Lopingian tetrapod footprints from the Venetian Prealps (Italy): new discoveries in a largely incomplete panorama

Highlights

  • A comparison of the Italian tetrapod ichnoassociation with other Lopingian non-eolian ichnofaunas suggests a possible preference for marginal marine settings by the archosauromorph and therapsid trackmakers at low-latitudes of Pangaea

  • Paolo Mietto [paolo.mietto@unipd.it], Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università degli Studi di Padova, Via Gradenigo 6, 35131, Padova, Italy

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Summary

Introduction

After new studies were carried out in the Lopingian Val Gardena Sandstone of northern Italy, in the Recoaro area (Venetian Prealps, NE Italy), the following tetrapod ichnotaxa are identified: cf Capitosauroides isp., cf Merifontichnus isp., Pachypes isp., Paradoxichnium isp., and Rynchosauroides isp., probably corresponding to ?parareptile, captorhinid eureptile, pareiasaurid parareptile, archosauromorph neodiapsid, and lacertoid neodiapsid trackmakers, respectively. An undetermined track shows features consistent with possible therapsid producers.

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