A probable stegosaurian track from the Late Jurassic of Poland

• Autorzy: Gierlinski G , Sabath K.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Elusive tracks of stegosaurs have been long searched for by ichnologists, and various purported stegosaur imprints have recently been reported. A fragmentary trackway of a large, quadrupedal ornithischian dinosaur was found on an isolated slab of Oxfordian dolomite, on the northeastern slope of Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. The track is similar to large, blunt−toed Late Jurassic ichnites from North America. The footprints show a distinctive morphology, which fits the stegosaurian foot. The newly described ichnites from the Upper Jurassic of Poland provide the second ichnological evidence of the Late Jurassic dinosaurs in this country; numerous rich dinosaur footprint assemblages were previously known only from the Lower Jurassic outcrops.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Poland; Late Jurassic; stegosaurian track; Jurassic; paleontology

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
• Rocznik: 2002
• Tom: 47
• Numer: 3
• Opis fizyczny: p.561-564,fig.

Twórcy

autor

Gierlinski G

• State Institute of Geology, Rakowiecka 4, 00-975 Warsaw, Poland

autor

Sabath K.

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