Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of EuropeColumbia University Press, 7 mars 2000 - 360 pages The long and distinguished tradition of tracking dinosaurs and other extinct animals in Europe dates back to the 1830s. Yet this venerable tradition of scientific activity cannot compare in magnitude and scope with the unprecedented spate of discovery and documentation of the last few years. Now, following on the heels of his Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of the Western United States, Martin Lockley teams up with Christian Meyer to present an up to date synthesis of the recent findings in the field of European fossil footprints. Drawing extensively on their own research results from studies in Britain, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, and elsewhere, the authors create a dynamic picture of mammal, reptile, bird, and amphibian "track-makers" throughout more than 300 million years of vertebrate evolution, placed in the context of Europe's changing ancient environments. |
Table des matières
GLIMPSE OF A DINOSAUR FROM THE DARK AGES | 136 |
THE FIRST IBERIAN SAUROPODS | 137 |
MR POOLEYS ENIGMATIC TRACK DISCOVERY | 143 |
DINOSAUR TRACKS FROM THE WESTERN ISLES | 144 |
THE TIP OF THE ICHNOLOGIC ICEBERG | 145 |
THE AGE OF BRONTOSAURS LATE JURASSIC | 151 |
GERMANY IBERIA AND SWITZERLAND | 158 |
BABY BRONTOSAURS | 161 |
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THE MARCH OF THE PROSAUROPODS | 84 |
CEST LAFRIQUE | 88 |
A BEAUTIFUL BUT ELUSIVE TRACK | 91 |
HIGHALTITUDE TRACKS IN THE SWISS ALPS | 93 |
COELUROSAURICHNUS | 95 |
DIGGING DEEPER IN THE LATE TRIASSIC | 97 |
A ONCE GREEN AND PLEASANT LAND | 99 |
EARLY JURASSIC | 105 |
THE LE VEILLON SITES | 106 |
THE CAUSSES REGION | 111 |
SANARY SUR MER | 114 |
TRACKS FROM SWEDISH COAL MINES AND RAILROAD TUNNELS | 115 |
TRACKING IN THE HOLY CROSS MOUNTAINS POLAND | 117 |
TRACKWAY EVIDENCE FOR THE EARLY ORIGIN OF STEGOSAURS | 122 |
THE FIRST SAUROPODS? EVIDENCE FROM ITALY | 126 |
THE DARK AGES MIDDLE JURASSIC | 133 |
SOCIAL SAUROPODS | 166 |
THE SWISS MEGATRACKSITE | 169 |
AN ANCIENT STOMPING GROUND | 171 |
SMALLER SPOOR | 173 |
TURTLES AND HOPPING DINOSAURS | 175 |
SPOOR OF THE PTEROSAUR | 178 |
A NOTE ON THE BRONTOPODUS ICHNOFACIES AND OTHER CARBONATE ICHNOFACIES | 181 |
THE FIRST ANKYLOSAUR TRACKS | 182 |
THE AGE OF IGUANODON EARLY CRETACEOUS | 189 |
EUROPES EARLY BIRDS | 191 |
THE AGE OF IGUANODON | 193 |
IGUANODON AND CONAN DOYLES LOST WORLD | 201 |
LA RIOJA | 204 |
MORE SPOOR OF THE PTEROSAUR | 213 |
FARTHER ALONG THE TRAIL OF THE ELUSIVE ANKYLOSAUR | 216 |
DALMATIAN DINOSAURS | 217 |
ARCTIC DINOSAURS | 220 |
THE END OF THE DINOSAUR TRAIL UPPER CRETACEOUS | 229 |
MORE DALMATIAN DINOSAURS AND DWARFS | 232 |
TRACKING TITANOSAURS IN THE HIGH PYRENEES | 234 |
THE LAST EUROPEAN DINOSAURS | 238 |
NEW HORIZONS | 243 |
PALEOCENEEOCENE | 244 |
TRACKING RONZOTHERIUM AN EARLY RHINO | 246 |
AN ABUNDANCE OF WATERFOWL | 248 |
A MIOCENE MENAGERIE | 252 |
MIOCENE OF SPAIN | 255 |
PLIOCENE INTERLUDE | 256 |
ICE AGE TRACKMAKERS | 257 |
HOMINID ICHNOLOGY | 259 |
THE SIGNATURE OF MODERN HUMANITY | 264 |
APPENDIX | 273 |
REFERENCES | 291 |
INDEX | 311 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
A. P. Hunt abundant animals ankylosaurs Anomoepus archosaur attributed bipedal bird tracks bones Brontopodus brontosaur Cameros Basin Carboniferous cave art chapter Chirotherium cm FIGURE cm long Coelurosaurichnus Demathieu deposits described digit dinosaur tracks discovery Early Jurassic Ellenberger Eubrontes Europe evidence example fauna foot fossil footprints Gierlinski Grallator Haubold hind ichnofacies ichnogenus ichnologists ichnology ichnospecies Iguanodon iguanodontid impressions interpretation Jurassic tracks known Lapparent Late Jurassic Late Triassic limestone Lower Cretaceous M. G. Lockley mammals manus tracks megalosaurid Middle Jurassic Middle Triassic Moratalla morphology Museum named North America nosaur Oligocene ornithopod Otozoum paleontologic paleontologists Permian Portugal preserved prosauropod Pseudotetrasauropus Pteraichnus pterosaur pterosaurian quadrupedal quarry region reported represent reptiles reveal sandstone Sarjeant sauropod sauropod tracks sauropod trackways sediments similar Spain species stegosaurs stratigraphic suggested surface Tetrasauropus theropod theropod tracks three-toed trace fossils track assemblages track record track types track-bearing trackers trackmaker trackway turtle Upper Jurassic vertebrate
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Page 27 - ... suddenly occurred to him that these impressions were those of a species of tortoise. He therefore called his wife to come down and make some paste, while he went and fetched the tortoise from the garden. On his return he found the kitchen table covered with paste, upon which the tortoise was placed. The delight of this scientific couple may be imagined when they found that the footmarks of the tortoise on the paste were identical with those on the sandstone slab.
Page 25 - He was greatly puzzled ; but at last one night, or rather between two and three in the morning, when, according to his wont, he was busy writing, it suddenly occurred to him that these impressions were those of a species of tortoise. He therefore called liia wife to come down and make some jKiste, while he went and fetched the tortoise from the garden.
Page 28 - It is outside the scope of this book to go into great detail on the subject of the validity of these various names, and what they might indicate about differences between one trackway and the next.
Page 293 - The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as Manifest in the Creation.
Page 264 - Another important feature of some human footprints is the presence of abnormalities (eg, toes missing, fusion of two toes, congenital bursitis and arthritis) which can be appreciated in the prints, giving unusual detail about the medical condition of the people who made...
Page 25 - The variety and number of these impressions have created a new science, and Ichnology has taken a definite place as a branch of paleontological research.
Page 27 - ... ingenuity of the professor was called forth in order to make them move. This he endeavoured to do by applying sundry flips with his fingers upon their tails ; deil a bit however would they stir ; and no wonder, for on endeavouring to take them up it was found that they had stuck so fast to the pie-crust as only to be removed with half a pound of dough sticking to each foot. This being the case it was found necessary to employ a rolling pin, and to knead the paste afresh ; nor did geological fingers...
Page 37 - It is beyond the scope of this book to delve too deeply into the composition of such assemblages, although a summary is given in the sections that follow.