Ichnotaxonomic Review of Large Ornithopod Dinosaur Tracks: Temporal and Geographic Implications

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Díaz Martínez, Ignacio, Pereda Suberbiola, Xabier, Pérez Lorente, Félix, Canudo, José Ignacio
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library Science 2015
• Subjects: Cretaceous Jiaguan formation; Ornithischian dinosaurs; Southern England; vertebrate footprints; Jindong formation; Theropod tracks; national-park; Wealden Group; Dakota Group; East-Asia; The Heel; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10810/32391; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115477

Background Large ornithopod tracks are known from the Upper Jurassic to the uppermost Cretaceous rocks of all continents but Antarctica. They include the tracks historically called Iguanodon footprints, iguanodontid footprints, hadrosaur/hadrosaurid footprints, and other large ornithopod tracks that...