Paleohelcura Gilmore, 1926


DESCRIPTION: Long continuous parallel rows of foot imprints arranged in groups of three occasionally with undulating present between them. Groups of foot impressions arranged in straight line, inclined at 60 to 80 degree angle to median line.

BEHAVIOR(S): Locomotion.

ENVIRONMENTAL SETTINGS: Shallow marine to continental. Alluvial, lacustrine, to eolian.

POSSIBLE TRACEMAKERS: Arthropods such as scorpions.

GEOLOGIC RANGE: Permian-recent.

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES: (Brady, 1947)