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Jindongornipes
Trace fossil classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Ichnofamily:	†Jindongornipodidae
Ichnogenus:	†Jindongornipes Lockley, Yang, Matsukawa, Fleming & Lim, 1992

Jindongornipes was a Cretaceous bird ichnogenus. Similar fossil footprints have been discovered in the Dunvegan Formation of British Columbia. These were among the first known Cretaceous fossil bird tracks in western Canada.

Footnotes

1. "Paleoecology of the Tracksites," McCrea and Sarjeant (2001); page 474.

References

• McCrea, R. T. and W. A S. Sarjeant. 2001. New ichnotaxa of bird and mammal footprints from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Gates Formation of Alberta; pp. 453–478 in D. H. Tanke, and K. Carpenter, (eds.), Mesozoic Vertebrate Life. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis.

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