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trackway

Noun

Meaning

A set of footprints left in soft ground by a human or animal, especially if fossilized.

Any of two or more narrow paths, of steel, smooth stone, or similar, laid in a public roadway otherwise formed of an inferior pavement, such as cobblestones, to provide an easy way for wheeled vehicles.

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A reconstruction of a lizard running bipedally chased by the pterosaur Pteraichnus koreanensis, based on the trackway. Source: Internet

One example is the Bronze Age trackway at Withy Bed Copse, in England; the trackway was built from wood that had clearly been worked for other purposes before being re-used in the trackway. Source: Internet

The site was chosen because it was on an ancient trackway which forded the river at low tide. Source: Internet

The ancient trackway gives an insight into a time when vertebrates were evolving through amphibians to reptiles. Source: Internet

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