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Re: Group hunting (was Killer whales and theropods/ Longest Animal)
No, 'brontosaurus', per se, is not a footprint type; but the
footprint ichnospecies to which term may refer, is Brontopodus birdi,
meaning (Roland) 'Bird's Brontosaur foot [Trace]'. This ichnospecies is
superbly described and illustrated in Brontopodus birdi,
Lower Cretaceous Sauropod Footprints from the U.S. Gulf Coastal Plain
(James O. Farlow, Jeffrey G. Pittman, and J. Michael Hawthorne) as published in
DINOSAUR TRACKS AND TRACES (Gillette & Lockley, editors), Cambridge
University Press, 1989.
The above-referenced ichnospecies is well represented in the Paluxy
riverbed near Glen Rose, Texas, at Dinosaur Valley State Park.
Hope this helps somebody (haven't traced the thread).
Ray Stanford
>is 'brontosaurus' a name of a footprint
type?
>or did you just mean
sauropod?
>
>-Betty
>
>mjmurphy wrote:
>> In
this area, there is a set of twelve brontosaur trackways
intermingled
>> with three carnosaur trackways,