First Jurassic dinosaur footprint from Scotland

Andrews, Julian E.; Hudson, J. D.

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“…The first dinosaur footprint to be found in Scotland was discovered on a loose block of muddy limestone from the Lonfearn Member of the Lealt Shale Formation at Rubha nam Brathairean in 1982. This 49cm long footprint is thought to have been made by an ornithopod (Andrews and Hudson, 1984;Delair and Sarjeant, 1985). Since then dinosaur footprints and trackways have been found in the Valtos Sandstone Formation (Bathonian) near Staffin at Dun Dearg and Kilt Rock (Clark and Barco Rodriguez, 1998;Clark, 2001a), and the Duntulm Formation (Bathonian) near Staffin at An Corran (Clark et al, 2004).…”

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Dinosaur Tracks from the Kilmaluag Formation (Bathonian, Middle Jurassic) of Score Bay, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK

Clark

Ross

Booth³

2005

Ichnos

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INTRODUCTIONIn late 2002, dinosaur footprints were discovered on loose blocks of sandstone, as well as in situ, on the foreshore at Lub Score, northwest Trotternish Peninsula, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK (Fig. 1). The majority of these footprints were much smaller than any previously found in Scotland, and were closely associated with larger footprints of what seems likely to be the same species. These footprints are stratigraphically younger than any other dinosaur remains found in Scotland to date, and are different from those found elsewhere from the Middle Jurassic succession on the Isle of Skye (Fig. 2).

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Dinosaur Tracks from the Kilmaluag Formation (Bathonian, Middle Jurassic) of Score Bay, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK

Clark

Ross

Booth³

2005

Ichnos

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“…Dinosaur footprints are well known from the Middle Jurassic rocks of the Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK (Clark & Barco Rodriguez 1998;Andrews & Hudson 1984;Clark et al 2004Clark et al , 2005Marshall 2005) and the Big Horn Basin, Wyoming, USA (Kvale et al 2001(Kvale et al , 2004Breithaupt et al 2004) (Fig. 1).…”

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“…The first recorded occurrence of dinosaur remains on the Isle of Skye was the discovery of a large 49 cm long footprint from the Lealt Shale Formation (Bathonian) at Rubha nam Brathairean in 1982 (Andrews & Hudson 1984;Delair & Sarjeant 1985) (Fig. 2(1)).…”

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A comparison between dinosaur footprints from the Middle Jurassic of the Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK, and Shell, Wyoming, USA

Clark

Brett-Surman

2008

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Synopsis Measurements of Middle Jurassic tridactyl dinosaur tracks from the Bathonian, Lealt Shale, Valtos Sandstone, Duntulm and Kilmaluag formations of the Isle of Skye, UK, are compared to the same measurements taken for dinosaur footprints from the Bajocian, Gypsum Spring and the Bathonian, Sundance Formation of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA. Principal component analysis of the data suggests that the smaller footprints from the Valtos Sandstone and Kilmaluag formations are indistinguishable from the footprints of the Sundance Formation. The single footprint from the Lealt Shale Formation is similar to the larger footprints from the Valtos Sandstone Formation. The footprints from the Duntulm and Gypsum Springs formations form distinct groupings from all other footprints. Four different groupings of dinosaur footprints can be recognized from the principal component analysis that may represent at least four different types of dinosaur.

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“…Scotland boasts one of the world's premier Middle Jurassic small vertebrate faunas (Evans & Milner 1994;Evans et al 2006), which includes spectacularly well-preserved specimens of one of the oldest turtles (Anquetin et al 2009) and some of the closest relatives of mammals (Waldman & Savage 1972). Tantalizing bones and footprints of dinosaurs have been found in several Early-Middle Jurassic units, making Scotland one of the rare places in the world to yield dinosaurs from this under-sampled time interval (Andrews & Hudson 1984;Clark et al 1995Clark et al , 2004Clark et al , 2005Clark & Rodríguez 1998;Clark 2001;Liston 2004;Marshall 2005;Barrett 2006). Most of these new discoveries have come to light over the past 25 years and, during this time, Scotland has emerged as a growing, but still underappreciated, centre of Mesozoic vertebrate palaeontology research.…”

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Ichthyosaurs from the Jurassic of Skye, Scotland

Brusatte

Young

Challands

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Fossils of Mesozoic vertebrates are rare in Scotland, particularly specimens of marine reptiles such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs. We describe a suite of ichthyosaur fossils from the Early to Middle Jurassic of Skye, which to our knowledge are the first ichthyosaurs from Scotland to be described and figured in detail. These fossils span approximately 30 million years, from the Sinemurian to the Bathonian, and indicate that ichthyosaurs were a major component of Scottish marine faunas during this time. The specimens include isolated teeth that could represent the most northerly known occurrences of the widespread Sinemurian species Ichthyosaurus communis, a characteristic component of the famous Lyme Regis faunas of England, suggesting that such faunas were also present in Scotland during the Early Jurassic. An associated humerus and vertebrae from Toarcian-Bajocian-aged deposits are named as a new genus and species of basal neoichthyosaurian, Dearcmhara shawcrossi. The taxonomic affinities of this taxon, which comes from a critical but poorly sampled interval in the fossil record, suggest that non-ophthalmosaurid neoichthyosaurians dominated European assemblages around the Early-Middle Jurassic boundary, and were later replaced by ophthalmosaurids, whose radiation likely took place outside Europe. Many of these specimens were collected by amateurs and donated to museum collections, a co-operative relationship essential to the preservation of Scotland's fossil heritage.

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First Jurassic dinosaur footprint from Scotland

Abstract: A single large cast of a footprint of a dinosaur is reported from the Lealt Shale Formation, Great Estuarine Group, Bathonian, of Trotternish, Skye

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Dinosaur Tracks from the Kilmaluag Formation (Bathonian, Middle Jurassic) of Score Bay, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK

Dinosaur Tracks from the Kilmaluag Formation (Bathonian, Middle Jurassic) of Score Bay, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK

A comparison between dinosaur footprints from the Middle Jurassic of the Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK, and Shell, Wyoming, USA

Ichthyosaurs from the Jurassic of Skye, Scotland

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