Temporal and palaeoenvironmental distribution of manus- and pes-dominated sauropod trackways

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 365-370

  Falkingham, P L ^a,b   Bates, K T ^c   Mannion, P D ^d,e  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY PLAN; CENTRE OF MASS; CRETACEOUS ROCKS; FOSSIL RECORDS; JURASSIC; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; SAUROPOD DINOSAUR; TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS;

MORPHOLOGY;

LOADING;

CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL RECORD; ICHNOFACIES; ICHNOLOGY; JURASSIC; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TRACKWAY;

ANIMALIA; DINOSAURIA; SAUROPODA;

EID: 84863891093     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492011-019     Document Type: Article

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