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Article: First occurrence of footprints of large therapsids from the Upper Permian of European Russia

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 50
Part: 3
Publication Date: May 2007
Page(s): 641 652
Author(s): Mikhail V. Surkov, Michael J. Benton, Richard J. Twitchett, Valentin P. Tverdokhlebov and Andrew J. Newell
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SURKOV, M. V., BENTON, M. J., TWITCHETT, R. J., TVERDOKHLEBOV, V. P., NEWELL, A. J. 2007. First occurrence of footprints of large therapsids from the Upper Permian of European Russia. Palaeontology50, 3, 641–652.

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Abstract

Large footprints of terrestrial tetrapods have been found in the Cis-Urals region of European Russia. The footprint horizon is in Late Permian (Changhsingian) deposits of the Vyatkian Gorizont (uppermost Tatarian) approximately 50 m below the local Permian/Triassic boundary. Seventeen randomly orientated footprints were excavated and are referred to the ichnospecies Brontopus giganteus. The footprints were emplaced in a reddish-brown mudstone that was deposited from suspension beneath shallow ponded water in a floodplain environment. They were subsequently cast by the base of the overlying fine-grained sandstone, which was deposited from a sheet-flood event. The footprints were produced by a large therapsid, possibly a dinocephalian, but more probably a dicynodont, and represent the first ichnological record of the Therapsida from the Upper Permian of Russia.
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