Two new ichnosites from the permo-triassic of Carnic Alps (Friuli Venezia giulia, NE Italy)

Two new vertebrate ichnosites are reported from the Carnic Alps of Friuli, NE Italy. The Valdajer (Ligosullo) site occurs in the Upper Permian Arenarie diVal Gardena and preserves tracks referred to the large-sized ichnogenus Pachypes that is reported for the first time in Friuli. A boulder from the Werfen Formation near Pierabech (Forni Avoltri) preserves depressions that could be half-swim tracks of a large tetrapod; however, it cannot be excluded that they are inorganic sedimentological structures. If actual footprints, they would represent the unexpected record of a large-bodied tetrapod in the Lower Triassic just after the catastrophic mass extinction at the Permian/Triassic boundary