Noah's ravens : interpreting the makers of tridactyl dinosaur footprints /
"How can the tracks of dinosaurs best be interpreted and used to reconstruct them? In many Mesozoic sedimentary rock formations, fossilized footprints of bipedal, three-toed (tridactyl) dinosaurs are preserved in huge numbers, often with few or no skeletons. Such tracks sometimes provide the on...
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Noah's ravens
- Intraspecific and interspecific variability in pedal phalangeal and digital dimensions and proportions in non-avian dinosaurs, birds, and crocodylians
- Pedal shape and phylogenetic relationships
- Toe-tapering profiles in non-avian dinosaurs and ground birds / with contributions by Dan Coroian
- Ontogenetic and across-species trends in hindfoot and hindlimb proportions / with contributions by Philip J. Currie
- Intraspecific variability in pedal size and shape in alligator mississippiensis
- Footprints of the emu (dromaius novaehollandiae) and other ground birds
- Summing up the comparative analyses
- Noah's ravens: interpreting the makers of tridactyl dinosaur footprints of the Newark Supergroup, Early Jurassic, Eastern North America
- Final thoughts.
