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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
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>
To: dinosaur@usc.edu <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Date: Monday, March 30, 1998 3:10 AM
Subject: Re: Group hunting (was Killer whales and theropods/ Longest Animal)

>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,