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Reinterpretation of the artiodactyla (Mammalia) footprints described by Ion Popescu-Voiteşti in 1927

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  • 1. National Institute of Marine Geology and Geoecology (GeoEcoMar), 23-25 Dimitrie Onciul St., 024053 Bucharest, Romania

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Abstract. The footprints shown in the original picture taken by Popescu-Voiteşti (1926) exhibit at least 10 trackways of Pecoripeda amalphea and Pecoripeda gazella (Artiodactyla). The contribution of Popescu-Voiteşti (1927) to the knowledge of vertebrate footprints from the Lower Miocene molasse of the Carpathian belt is of outstanding importance, as it enlarged the distribution area of those footprints in Romania. Additionally, his studies open the interest of the Romanian scientists for palaeoichnological researches, starting with the 6th decade of the 20th century. The first identification of bird footprints in
Lower Miocene/ Burdigalian sediments in Europe (Grozescu, 1918) and of the artiodactyla footprints (Popescu-Voiteşti, 1927), together with the establishment of a nomenclature system and classification of the mammals and bird footprints (Panin & Avram, 1962; Panin, 1964), were priorities of Romanian palaeoichnology (Brustur, 2003, 2004).

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