Monuran trackway
The Monuran trackway is a fossil trackway in the Robledo Mountains of New Mexico, produced by the extinct insect group called Monura, (meaning "one-tail"), from the Lower Permian. The monuran is a wingless jumping insect; thus the means of locomotion is jumping, then walking. The trackway is composed of an initial beginning 'flop and bodyprint', then a series of foot tracks with a tail-drag/body-drag in between.
The ichnofossil name of the monuran footprint is called Tonganoxichnus.
See also
External links
- Graphic of the Monuran trackway at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2010-11-08); Article – www.hmnh.org – "The Footfalls and Bellyflops of Permian Insects" – (Tonganoxichnus robledoensis fossil footprint)
- Lower Permian Nonmarine Arthropod Fossils at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2010-11-08)
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