Note 709 — Chapter XVII
Reading edition
See Ornithoidichnites, in chap, xviii.
[710] Quart. Geol. Journ. vol. viii. p. 97, pl. iii.
[711] Across the ridges of the ripples on this slab is a narrow groove, passing along between the two rows of foot-prints; this might have been made by the body or the tail of the animal. Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1849, Sect. pp. 56 and 134; and Trans. Americ. Phil. Soc. new series, vol. x. part ii. plates xxxi. and xxxii.
[712] With regard to the distribution of reptilian life during the carboniferous and succeeding epochs, see above, page 748.