Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of EuropeThe 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. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO TRACKING | 1 |
HOW TO STUDY ANCIENT TRACKS | 2 |
INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR | 4 |
WHERE TO GO TRACKING | 7 |
NAMING FOOTPRINTS | 8 |
WHO DUN IT? IDENTIFYING ANCIENT TRACKMAKERS | 9 |
TIME AND TIME AGAIN | 10 |
COLLECTING FOOTPRINT DATA | 11 |
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 |
SOCIAL BEHAVIOR | 13 |
THE ICHNOFACIES CONCEPT | 15 |
TWO PIECES OF THE INCOMPLETE PUZZLE | 16 |
THE MYSTERIES OF TRACK PRESERVATION | 17 |
THE TRADITION OF TRACKING DINOSAURS IN EUROPE | 25 |
THE OLDEST EUROPEAN TRACKMAKERS | 28 |
Dragging Through the Devonian | 29 |
Cruising the Carboniferous | 31 |
OF DESERTS AND SWAMPS | 35 |
PERMIAN TRACKWAY HEAVEN | 38 |
THE GERMAN SUMMIT CONFERENCE | 44 |
THE COMPLETE TRACE OF A HAMMERHEAD AMPHIBIAN | 46 |
THE FIRST PAREIASAUR TRACKWAY | 47 |
PANGAEAN GLOBETROTTERS | 48 |
DAWN OF THE MESOZOIC THE EARLY AND MIDDLE TRIASSIC | 53 |
SEX IN THE FOOTPRINT BED | 59 |
LIZARD ANCESTORS AND PROTOMAMMALS WITH HAIRY FEET | 64 |
FACT FICTION AND CONTROVERSY | 67 |
FUTURE DIRECTIONS | 71 |
THE FIRST DINOSAURS THE LATE TRIASSIC EPOCH | 79 |
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 |
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