Some Observations on the Dinosaur Tracks at Münchehagen (Lower Cretaceous), Germany

Lockley, Martin G.; Wright, Joanna L.; Thies, Detlev

doi:10.1080/10420940490428805

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“…It is of importance to note that the vertebrate trackbearing deposits of the Obernkirchen Sandstone are all located within this limnic depositional system, contrary to a few publications (Diedrich 2004;Lockley et al 2004) which regard this as marginal-marine in origin.…”

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Vertebrate tracksites in the Obernkirchen Sandstone (late Berriasian, Early Cretaceous) of northwest Germany— their stratigraphical, palaeogeographical, palaeoecological, and historical context

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Section: Palaeogeographymentioning

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“…9b). This morphotype has been named Bueckeburgichnus maximus Kuhn, 1958(see Lockley 2000Lockley et al 2004). However, Thulborn (2001) reasonably argued that the ichnogenus Megalosauripus Lessertisseur, 1955 is available as a valid senior synonym of Bueckeburgichnus.…”

Section: Facies and Lithology Of Vertebrate Track-bearing Horizonsmentioning

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Vertebrate tracksites in the Obernkirchen Sandstone (late Berriasian, Early Cretaceous) of northwest Germany— their stratigraphical, palaeogeographical, palaeoecological, and historical context

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“…For example, Hunt and Lucas (2006) considered that ornithopod tracks are more abundant in Cretaceous outcrops. Lockley et al (2004) observed that narrow-gauge sauropod trackways are predominant in Jurassic units and wide-gauge in the Cretaceous ones. Therefore, the study of TithonianBerriasian interval tracksites from Iberia is important for understanding dinosaur evolution.…”

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“…In Deltapodus, the manus prints are broadly crescent-shaped with an occasional development of the pollex impression (Whyte and Romano, 2001), and subtriangular in shape with the apex forming the posterior heel impression in Stegopodus (Lockley and Hunt, 1998 We relate the quadruped tracks studied in this paper to sauropod tracks: pes prints with four claw impressions, two of them laterally curved, and manus prints with forwardly-oriented digit impressions that are not well-developed (Wright, 2005). In the following lines, we compare these quadruped tracks with the main valid sauropod ichnotaxa (sensu Lockley et al, 2004;Marty et al, 2010).…”

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Unusual sauropod tracks in the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition. Cameros Basin (Burgos, Spain)

Fernández-Baldor¹,

Díaz-Martínez

Contreras³

et al. 2015

Journal of Iberian Geology

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The Las Sereas site includes at least 14 ichnological outcrops along 5.6 km, in the Lara area, southwest Burgos Province. 67 ichnites of dinosaurs are documented at Las Sereas 7, identified as theropod and sauropod trackways occurring in shallow carbonates of lacustrine environment. Sauropod trackways have intermediate-gauge and low heteropody, and show different anatomical features to other tracks found in the ichnological record, especially in the disposition and orientation of pes digits. They are similar to Polyonyx from the Middle Jurassic of Portugal. However, since they do not preserve reliable manus data they are classified as aff. Polyonyx. The three sauropod trackways are related to the same kind of trackmaker. They differ from each other only in size, and gregarious behavior has not been detected. Analysis of these trackways reveals changes in travel direction even when there are few tracks in each sequence. At the Las Sereas 7 tracksite, the pace length (PL), width of the angulation pattern (WAP) and the WAP/PL ratio and depth analysis via photogrammetry show a direction change in two sauropod trackways. This tracksite and that at La Pedraja are unique in the Tithonian-Berriasian interval of the Iberian Peninsula that occur in a lacustrine environment, and could be indicate of the relationship between the diversity of Iberian, Tithonian-Berriasian sauropod tracks and sedimentary environments.Keywords: Dinosaurs, Sauropod tracks, Tithonian, Berriasian, Cameros Basin, Iberia Resumen El yacimiento de Las Sereas se compone de al menos 14 afloramientos icníticos que se localizan a lo largo de 5,6 Km de longitud en la comarca de Lara, en el sureste de la provincia de Burgos. En el afloramiento de Las Sereas 7 se han documentado 67 icnitas de dinosaurios, identificadas como terópodas y saurópodas, producidas en un ambiente lacustre carbonatado somero. Las rastros saurópodos son de anchura intermedia y heteropodia baja mostrando caracteres anatómicos diferentes a los encontrados en el registro icnológico conocido, en especial en lo referente a la disposición y orientación de los dedos del pie. La mayor semejanza de estas icnitas saurópodas se establece con Polyonyx del Jurásico Medio de Portugal, pero al carecer de datos fiables sobre la anatomía de las manos en Las Sereas, clasificamos estas icnitas de Burgos como aff. Polyonyx. Los tres rastros saurópodos de Burgos se atribuyen a un mismo icnopoyeta, diferenciándose entre sí sólo por el tamaño, y sin que se haya detectado un comportamiento gregario. En el estudio de estos rastros pueden recogerse datos que informen sobre trayectos con cambio de dirección, incluso cuando lo que se conserva es una serie relativamente corta de pasos. En Las Sereas 7 la combinación de los valores de varios parámetros -longitud de paso (PL), pauta de anchura de angulación (WAP) y relación WAP/PL -y el estudio de la profundidad de las icnitas por fotogrametría permiten interpretar un cambio de dirección en dos de los rastros saurópodos. Este yacimiento y el de La Pedraja...

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Geoconservation of Human Tracks

Bennett

Morse

2014

Human Footprints: Fossilised Locomotion?

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Some Observations on the Dinosaur Tracks at Münchehagen (Lower Cretaceous), Germany

Cited by 38 publications

References 11 publications

Vertebrate tracksites in the Obernkirchen Sandstone (late Berriasian, Early Cretaceous) of northwest Germany— their stratigraphical, palaeogeographical, palaeoecological, and historical context

Vertebrate tracksites in the Obernkirchen Sandstone (late Berriasian, Early Cretaceous) of northwest Germany— their stratigraphical, palaeogeographical, palaeoecological, and historical context

Unusual sauropod tracks in the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition. Cameros Basin (Burgos, Spain)

Geoconservation of Human Tracks

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