Unique trackway on Permian Karoo shoreline provides evidence of temnospondyl locomotory behaviour (IMAGE)

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Unique trackway on Permian Karoo shoreline provides evidence of temnospondyl locomotory behaviour

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Comparison of Impression 2 from the palaeosurface (A) with a present-day body impression and trail of Alligator mississippiensis on the foreshore at St. Catherines Island, Georgia, United States (B). Photograph courtesy of St. Catherines Island Sea Turtle Program, Gale A. Bishop and modified with permission. C) A rhinesuchid temnospondyl such as Laccosaurus or Uranocentrodon is probably the tracemaker. Scale bar = 30 cm (A and B).

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Groenewald et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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