Tetrapods make tracks in the Carboniferous of Canada

摘要

Geology Today's very own Howard Falcon-Lang has in recent years been systematically unravelling the palaeoenvironments of the Carboniferous of Nova Scotia (see for example Geology Today, 2010, v.26, no,3, Joggins Nova Scotia). Recently Howard and his colleagues have documented exceptional sets of tetra-pod tracks from the Tynemouth Creek Formation, in Southern New Brunswick, Canada (Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2010, v.296, pp.1-13). The Tynemouth Creek Formation represents an abandoned river channel on a seasonally dry alluvial plain.