The Bohdašín Formation (

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: ''Bohdašínské souvrství'') is a

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unit of

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age (about 210 Ma), located in the

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. A small tridactyl footprint of a

coelophysoid Coelophysoidea were common dinosaurs of the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic periods. They were widespread geographically, probably living on all continents. Coelophysoids were all slender, carnivorous forms with a superficial similarity to the ...

theropod Theropoda (; ), whose members are known as theropods, is a dinosaur clade that is characterized by hollow bones and three toes and claws on each limb. Theropods are generally classed as a group of saurischian dinosaurs. They were ancestrally ...

or an indeterminate

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was found around 1995 near

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in these strata. It was classified as ichnogenus ''

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''. In 2011, another dinosaur footprint was discovered (in Botanical garden of

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, but on the stone slab carried from this quarry), this time classified as ichnogenus ''

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