Re: solnhofen KAYENTA FORMATION seemingly-bird tracks

["Rob Gay" <rob_redwing@hotmail.com>]

>     Do you know where I might see a photo of them?  Has this been 
> published, or is it something you have heard from someone who saw them, 
> etc.?<
I heard it from someone who heard it from someone who saw it. But, I am 
wanting to go out and find out where they are, so, be assured that if I find 
them, you'll be able to see pictures shortly thereafter.

>     Also, do the rumored Kayenta bird tracks show a partially or 
> completely 'reversed' hallux (digit I) impression, or any at all?<
> From my understanding, they show none at all.

> Problem is, it seems to me that non-perching birds that do not have a 
> 'reversed' perching-type hallux, also may not have a hallux that reaches 
> the ground.  In such cases, I would be hard-put to say whether such a track 
> or track-way was made by an avian or by a non-avian dinosaur.<
True true.

>     Huuummm... Now if I could just find such a track-way where the 
> animal's tracks suddenly cease (and where there is no change in the 
> substrate character, that in and of itself might have prevented further 
> leaving of tracks) and where there are tracks of no large animal around 
> suggesting the little track maker was nabbed by, say, a hungry theropod.  
> :)<
:) Indeed. I personally hoping for lithographic facies in the Chinle, but 
either would be nice.


>     Anyhow, help in seeing a photographic image (preferably) or, in 
> absence of that, even a good quality drawing of the L. Jurassic Kayenta
possibly-bird tracks would be much appreciated.<
If I can find them, I'll get the word out somehow.
Peace,
Rob

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