Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 807 g
Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 807 g
ISBN: 978-0-231-10710-5
Verlag: COLUMBIA UNIV PR
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.
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1. Introduction to TrackingThe Importance of Fossil FootprintsHow to Study Ancient TracksIndividual BehaviorWhere to Go TrackingNaming FootprintsWho Dun It? Identifying Ancient TrackmakersTime and Time AgainCollecting Footprint DataSocial BehaviorUsing Trackways to Read Ancient Ecology: The Ichnofacies ConceptTracks and Bones: Two Pieces of an Incomplete PuzzleThe Mysteries of Track Preservation2. The Tradition of Tracking Dinosaurs in EuropeEarliest DiscoveriesThe Oldest European Trackmakers:I: Dragging Through the DevonianII: Cruising in the CarboniferousOf Deserts and SwampsRotligiendes: Permian Trackway HeavenThe German Summit ConferenceStuck in the Mud: The Complete Trace of a Hammerhead AmphibianThe First Pareiasaur TrackwayPangean Globetrotters3. Dawn of the Mesozoic: The Early and Middle TriassicThe Story of Chirotherium: The Dawn of the ArchosaursSex in the Footprint BedTracks as Keys to Evolution and LocomotionLizard ancestors and Proto-mammals with Hairy FeetThe World's Oldest Dinosaur Tracks: Fact, Fiction, and ControversyFuture Directions4. The First Dinosaurs: The Late Triassic EpochWelsh Dinosaurs at the Jolly Sailor PubThe March of the ProsauropodsLearning Tracking from the Bushmen: "C'est l'Afrique''A Beautiful but Elusive TrackHigh-Altitude Tracks in the Swiss Alpsvon Huene's Little Dinosaur Track: CoelurosaurichusFuture Directions: Digging Deeper in the Late TriassicA Once Green and Pleasant Land5. Early JurassicNoah's Raven Visits EuropeFrance: The Le Veillon SitesFrance: The Causses RegionFrance: Sanary sur MerTracks from Swedish Coal Mines and Railroad TunnelsTracking Dinosaurs in the Holy Cross Mountains, PolandTrackway Evidence for the Early Origin of StegosaursThe First Sauropods? Evidence from Italy6. The Dark Ages: Middle JurassicDinosaurs in the Great Deltas of YorkshireGlimpse of a Dinosaur from the Dark AgesThe First Iberian SauropodsMr. Pooley's Enigmatic Track DiscoveryDinosaur Tracks from the Western IslesThe Tip of the Ichnologic Iceberg7. The Age of Brontosaurs: Late JurassicMegalosaur TracksSauropods on the Rise: Germany, Iberia, and SwitzerlandBaby BrontosaursSocial SauropodsThe Swiss MegatracksiteThe Dinosaur Disco: An Ancient Stomping GroundSmaller SpoorTurtles and Hopping DinosaursSpoor of the PterosaurA Note on the Brontopodus Ichnofacies, and Other Carbonate IchnofaciesThe First Ankylosaur Tracks8. The Age of Iguanodon: Early CretaceousArchosaurs in the Air (Pterosaurian Giants)Europe's Early BirdsThe Age of IguanodonIguanodon and Conan Doyle's Lost WorldLa RiojaTheropod TracksSauropod TracksOrnithopod TracksMore Spoor of the PterosaurFarther Along the Trail of the Elusive AnkylosaurDalmatian DinosaursArctic Dinosaurs9. The End of the Dinosaur Trail: Upper CretaceousThe Battle of CarenqueMore Dalmatian DinosaursThe Last of the Brontosaurs: Tracking Titanosaurs in the High PyreneesThe Last European Dinosaurs10. New HorizonsThe Age of Mammals and BirdsThe Quiet Dawn: Paleocene-EoceneOligocene Act I: Tracking Ronzotherium, an Early RhinoOligocene Act II. An Abundance of WaterfowlA Miocene MenagerieTracking Ancestors of the Cat: Miocene of SpainPliocene InterludePleistocene: Ice Age TrackmakersSubterranean Tracking: Hominid IchnologyCave Art to Forensics: The Signature of Modern Humanity
