Phoenicopterichnum sp.
Phoenicopterichnum is an ichnotaxon including traces made by flamingoes, of the family Phoenicopteridae. Australia was once home to at least four species of flamingo, but none lived past the Pleistocene epoch.
This trace fossil shows the footprints and feeding traces left by a small number of flamingoes in a shallow waterhole in the early Pliocene (~4 million years ago) of central South Australia.
Specimen number: FU 2789
Trackway type: footprints and feeding traces
Geological age: Pliocene, Main Body Tirari Formation
State/territory: South Australia
Locality: Keekalanna Waterhole, Warburton River
