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Dinosaur tracks symposium signals a renaissance in vertebrate ichnology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

Martin G. Lockley  and
David D. Gillette
Martin G. Lockley
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Colorado at Denver, 1100 14th Street, Denver, Colorado 80202
David D. Gillette
Affiliation:
New Mexico Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 7010, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87194
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The study of tracks is often regarded as a fringe subdiscipline outside the scientific mainstream. Papers dealing with footprints traditionally appear either in popular magazines like Natural History (Bird 1939, 1944; Brown 1938), or in very obscure publications (Sarjeant 1974). Usually it is only the spectacular discoveries, which are directly applicable to topical debates, that rouse much scientific interest. For example, the discovery of Pliocene hominid tracks (Leakey and Hay 1979) provided unequivocal evidence for the antiquity of bipedalism (cf., Napier 1967). Similarly the tracks of a running theropod allowed for direct estimates of the speed attained by dinosaurs (Farlow 1981), and the tracks of a herd of running theropods fueled debate about gregariousness and stampede behavior (Thulborn and Wade 1984).

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Paleobiology , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , Spring 1987 , pp. 246 - 252
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