Vertebrate trackways in the Parrsboro Formation (upper Carboniferous) at Rams Head, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

Vertebrate trace fossils are reported from the upper Parrsboro Formation at Rams Head, west of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. They occur as casts of tetrapod trackways. The trackmakers thrived in a floodplain setting vegetated with tree ferns. Pseudobradypus erneri Schmidt, represented by three trackways, has previously been reported from Germany. It is interpreted as having been produced by a cotylosaur and occurs in association with several scattered footprints and poorly preserved trackways of Hylopus hardingi Dawson; micro saurian-produced ichnotaxa are represented by Dromilopus quadrifidus Matthe w and Cursipes dawsoni Matthew. Assignment of these trace fossils to the la te Namurian to Westphalian A (upper Carboniferous) accords with the palynol ogically deduced age of the strata As such, the sequence, which hosts the t race fossils, is stratigraphically equivalent to the Coal Mine Point Member of the Joggins Formation.