Brasilichnium
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| Brasilichnium | |
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Trace fossil classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Ichnofamily: | †Chelichnopodidae |
| Ichnogenus: | †Brasilichnium Leonardi 1981 |
| Type ichnospecies | |
| †Brasilichium elusivum (Leonardi, 1983) | |
| Ichnospecies | |
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Brasilichnium is the name of fossilised mammaliamorph footprints dating from the Jurassic and Cretaceous. They have been identified from Brazil and western North America.[1]
Brasilichnium is the name of the footprints, identified by their shape, and not of the genus or genera that made them, which is as yet unknown but was likely a mammaliamorph with a semi-erect leg posture. Mammaliamorphs were ancestors of modern mammals.[2]
