Wide-gauge sauropod trackways from the Early Jurassic of Sichuan, China: oldest sauropod trackways from Asia with special emphasis on a specimen showing a narrow turn

Xing, Lida; Lockley, Martin G.; Marty, Daniel; He, Jun; Hu, Xufeng; Dai, Hui; Matsukawa, Masaki; Peng, Guangzhao; Ye, Yong; Klein, Hendrik; Zhang, Jianping; Hao, Bin; Persons, W. Scott

doi:10.1007/s00015-016-0229-0

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“…For instance, bipedal and quadrupedal sauropodomorph trackways were reported from the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic (Avanzini et al, 2003). The first sauropod trackways were fully quadrupedal and narrow-gauge (Gierliński, 1997;Avanzini et al, 2003; but see also Xing et al, 2016). Just a few million years later in the Middle Jurassic, there are already a co-existence of narrow and wide-gauge sauropod trackways (Day et al, 2002;Santos et al, 2009).…”

Section: Stance During the Locomotion Was The Dinosaur Walking Bipeda...mentioning

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¿Qué nos dicen sus huellas? Muchas preguntas y algunas respuestas sobre la vida de los dinosaurios no avianos

Díaz-Martínez,

Citton,

Castanera

2023

J Iber Geol

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Dinosaur tracks are considerably common in the fossil record and were described from many areas in the world. They provide a live picture of dinosaur behaviour and offer valuable data about different aspects of the trackmaker paleobiology. The dinosaur ichnological record allows gain information about autopod anatomy, functional adaptations, stance and gaits with which dinosaurs moved. This information, which is often difficult to obtain from the body-fossil record alone, allows making inferences not only concerning the single individuals who produced the footprints, but also within an evolutionary context. Footprints provide also evidences about the abilities that dinosaurs had to swim, run or live with certain pathologies. They also allowed inferring how they move in herds or even made courtship rituals. The study of tracks also enables the reconstruction of paleocommunities including predator–prey interaction. On the other hand, footprints are useful paleoenvironmental indicators, informing about moisture content, bathymetry, paleocurrents, subaqueous substrates, zonations in lacustrine margins, etc. In addition, it has been proposed that dinosaur track assemblages can be related to certain facies (ichnofacies), in order to refine paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Dinosaur tracks can sometimes be in the shadow with respect to the skeletal record. However, the data obtained from the ichnological record complements and completes the knowledge we have about the life of dinosaurs, even showing previously unknown aspects. This work is an overview of the information we can obtain from the study of non-avian dinosaur footprints, trying to answer some questions about their life.

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Section: Stance During the Locomotion Was The Dinosaur Walking Bipeda...mentioning

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¿Qué nos dicen sus huellas? Muchas preguntas y algunas respuestas sobre la vida de los dinosaurios no avianos

Díaz-Martínez,

Citton,

Castanera

2023

J Iber Geol

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“…10B, 17), with no evidence of 'off-tracking' sensu Ishigaki & Matsumoto (2009). Trackways made by turning sauropods (recently reviewed by Lockley et al (2021)) have been described from: the Lower Jurassic of China (Lockley & Matsukawa, 2009;Xing et al, 2016a); the Upper Jurassic of Morocco (Ishigaki & Matsumoto, 2009), Portugal (Meyer et al, 1994;Castanera et al, 2014), Switzerland (Lockley & Meyer, 2000: pp. 12, 169-171;Meyer, 1990;Meyer, 1993;Stevens, Ernst & Marty, 2016), and the USA (Lockley & Hunt, 1995: pp.…”

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A diverse Late Cretaceous vertebrate tracksite from the Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia

Poropat

White

Ziegler

et al. 2021

PeerJ

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The Upper Cretaceous ‘upper’ Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia is world famous for hosting Dinosaur Stampede National Monument at Lark Quarry Conservation Park, a somewhat controversial tracksite that preserves thousands of tridactyl dinosaur tracks attributed to ornithopods and theropods. Herein, we describe the Snake Creek Tracksite, a new vertebrate ichnoassemblage from the ‘upper’ Winton Formation, originally situated on Karoola Station but now relocated to the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History. This site preserves the first sauropod tracks reported from eastern Australia, a small number of theropod and ornithopod tracks, the first fossilised crocodyliform and ?turtle tracks reported from Australia, and possible lungfish and actinopterygian feeding traces. The sauropod trackways are wide-gauge, with manus tracks bearing an ungual impression on digit I, and anteriorly tapered pes tracks with straight or concave forward posterior margins. These tracks support the hypothesis that at least one sauropod taxon from the ‘upper’ Winton Formation retained a pollex claw (previously hypothesised for Diamantinasaurus matildae based on body fossils). Many of the crocodyliform trackways indicate underwater walking. The Snake Creek Tracksite reconciles the sauropod-, crocodyliform-, turtle-, and lungfish-dominated body fossil record of the ‘upper’ Winton Formation with its heretofore ornithopod- and theropod-dominated ichnofossil record.

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First discovery of dinosaur tracks from the Lower Cretaceous Duoni Formation in eastern Tibet, China

Li,

Zhao,

Foster

et al. 2025

Cretaceous Research

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Wide-gauge sauropod trackways from the Early Jurassic of Sichuan, China: oldest sauropod trackways from Asia with special emphasis on a specimen showing a narrow turn

Cited by 14 publications

References 29 publications

¿Qué nos dicen sus huellas? Muchas preguntas y algunas respuestas sobre la vida de los dinosaurios no avianos

¿Qué nos dicen sus huellas? Muchas preguntas y algunas respuestas sobre la vida de los dinosaurios no avianos

A diverse Late Cretaceous vertebrate tracksite from the Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia

First discovery of dinosaur tracks from the Lower Cretaceous Duoni Formation in eastern Tibet, China

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