Triassic Footprints

Abstract

IN the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society for August last there is an interesting notice by Mr. Sollas, accompanied by a figure, of a set of footprints from the Triassic beds of South Wales. These footprints Mr. Sollas says he has compared with those of the emu taken in modelling-clay; and so complete was the agreement that, other considerations out of the question, he would not have felt much hesitation in declaring for the avian, and indeed ratitous, character of the animal that produced them; but that because no remains of birds have occurred in the trias of the south-west of England, while those of reptiles have, he refers them to either Thecodontosaurus or Palœosaurus.