Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of Europe

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By: Martin G. Lockley, Christian Meyer

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Published: 7th March 2000
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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.

Beginning with an introduction to tracking and a history of the European tracking tradition, "Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of Europe" then charts a broad path of evolutionary proliferation from the proto-dinosaurs of the Early Triassic period to the dinosaurs' decline and disappearance in the Upper Cretaceous. The survey continues into the age of mammals and birds, ending with the cave art of our Paleolithic ancestors.

"Well-researched and referenced...of value to the novice, and the reference section...can be easily traced to supplement the contents of the book...Readable, well-presented, ...this will undoubtedly be a valuable acquisition." -- David Norman, "Geological Magazine 2000" "Well-researched and referenced...of value to the novice, and the reference section...can be easily traced to supplement the contents of the book...Readable, well-presented, ...this will undoubtedly be a valuable acquisition." -- David Norman, Geological Magazine 2000 "Well-researched and referenced...of value to the novice, and the reference section...can be easily traced to supplement the contents of the book...Readable, well-presented, ...this will undoubtedly be a valuable acquisition." -- David Norman, "Geological Magazine 2000"

Preface: The Dinosaur-Tracking Renaissance in Europe	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction to Tracking	p. 1
The Importance of Fossil Footprints	p. 1
How to Study Ancient Tracks	p. 2
Individual Behavior	p. 4
Where to Go Tracking	p. 7
Naming Footprints	p. 8
Who Dun It? Identifying Ancient Trackmakers	p. 9
Time and Time Again	p. 10
Collecting Footprint Data	p. 11
Social Behavior	p. 13
Using Trackways to Read Ancient Ecology: The Ichnofacies Concept	p. 15
Tracks and Bones: Two Pieces of the Incomplete Puzzle	p. 16
The Mysteries of Track Preservation	p. 17
The Tradition of Tracking Dinosaurs in Europe	p. 25
Earliest Discoveries	p. 25
The Oldest European Trackmakers	p. 28
Dragging Through the Devonian	p. 29
Cruising the Carboniferous	p. 31
Of Deserts and Swamps	p. 35
Rotliegendes: Permian Trackway Heaven	p. 38
The German Summit Conference	p. 44
Stuck in the Mud: The Complete Trace of a Hammerhead Amphibian	p. 46
The First Pareiasaur Trackway	p. 47
Pangaean Globetrotters	p. 48
Dawn of the Mesozoic: The Early and Middle Triassic	p. 53
The Story of Chirotherium: The Dawn of the Archosaurs	p. 53
Sex in the Footprint Bed	p. 59
Tracks as Keys to Evolution and Locomotion	p. 59
Lizard Ancestors and Proto-mammals with Hairy Feet	p. 64
The World's Oldest Dinosaur Tracks: Fact, Fiction, and Controversy	p. 67
Future Directions	p. 71
The First Dinosaurs: The Late Triassic Epoch	p. 79
Welsh Dinosaurs at the Jolly Sailor Pub	p. 79
The March of the Prosauropods	p. 84
Learning Tracking from the Bushmen: "C'est l'Afrique"	p. 88
A Beautiful but Elusive Track	p. 91
High-Altitude Tracks in the Swiss Alps	p. 93
Von Huene's Little Dinosaur Track: Coelurosaurichnus	p. 95
Future Directions: Digging Deeper in the Late Triassic	p. 97
A Once Green and Pleasant Land	p. 99
Early Jurassic	p. 105
Noah's Raven Visits Europe	p. 105
France: The Le Veillon Sites	p. 106
France: The Causses Region	p. 111
France: Sanary sur Mer	p. 114
Tracks from Swedish Coal Mines and Railroad Tunnels	p. 115
Tracking in the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland	p. 117
Trackway Evidence for the Early Origin of Stegosaurs	p. 122
The First Sauropods? Evidence from Italy	p. 126
The Dark Ages: Middle Jurassic	p. 133
Dinosaurs in the Great Deltas of Yorkshire	p. 133
Glimpse of a Dinosaur from the Dark Ages	p. 136
The First Iberian Sauropods	p. 137
Mr. Pooley's Enigmatic Track Discovery	p. 143
Dinosaur Tracks from the Western Isles	p. 144
The Tip of the Ichnologic Iceberg	p. 145
The Age of Brontosaurs: Late Jurassic	p. 151
Megalosaur Tracks	p. 151
Sauropods on the Rise: Germany, Iberia, and Switzerland	p. 158
Baby Brontosaurs	p. 161
Social Sauropods	p. 166
The Swiss Megatracksite	p. 169
The Dinosaur Disco: An Ancient Stomping Ground	p. 171
Smaller Spoor	p. 173
Turtles and Hopping Dinosaurs	p. 175
Spoor of the Pterosaur	p. 178
A Note on the Brontopodus Ichnofacies and Other Carbonate Ichnofacies	p. 181
The First Ankylosaur Tracks	p. 182
The Age of Iguanodon: Early Cretaceous	p. 189
Archosaurs in the Air (Pterosaurian Giants)	p. 189
Europe's Early Birds	p. 191
The Age of Iguanodon	p. 193
Iguanodon and Conan Doyle's Lost World	p. 201
La Rioja	p. 204
More Spoor of the Pterosaur	p. 213
Farther Along the Trail of the Elusive Ankylosaur	p. 216
Dalmatian Dinosaurs	p. 217
Arctic Dinosaurs	p. 220
The End of the Dinosaur Trail: Upper Cretaceous	p. 229
The Battle of Carenque	p. 229
More Dalmatian Dinosaurs and Dwarfs	p. 232
The Last of the Brontosaurs: Tracking Titanosaurs in the High Pyrenees	p. 234
The Last European Dinosaurs	p. 238
New Horizons	p. 243
The Age of Mammals and Birds	p. 243
The Quiet Dawn: Paleocene-Eocene	p. 244
Tracking Ronzotherium, an Early Rhino	p. 246
An Abundance of Waterfowl	p. 248
A Miocene Menagerie	p. 252
Tracking Ancestors of the Cat: Miocene of Spain	p. 255
Pliocene Interlude	p. 256
Pleistocene: Ice Age Trackmakers	p. 257
Subterranean Tracking: Hominid Ichnology	p. 259
Cave Art to Forensics: The Signature of Modern Humanity	p. 264
Appendix	p. 273
References	p. 291
Index	p. 311
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ISBN: 9780231107105
ISBN-10: 0231107102
Audience: Professional
For Ages: 22+ years old
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 360
Published: 7th March 2000
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIV PR
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 25.4 x 17.81 x 2.06
Weight (kg): 0.81
Edition Number: 2