RE: Sauropods in wet versus dry environments... a tip of the hattosome past artists (Was Re. Lost Worlds)

["R. Irmis" <rbi@dana.ucc.nau.edu>]

<<Suffice it to say, however, that if you really want the answer, there is
plenty of it in the paleoichnological literature.  Tracks made in desert
sands are well know, and if it were not so late I'd give you a reference.>>

The Permian Coconino Sandstone in the Grand Canyon is littered with such
tracks.  I dont have the specific refs handy, but Gilmore published 3
monographs on the tracks in the 1920s.  My follow-up question is, while
"dry" footprints are preserved, how often are they preserved.  That is, is
it still more likely that a footprint will be found after being preserved in
a wet substrate than dry?

Regards,
Randall Irmis