Re: Permian Footprints: references

["Emma C. Rainforth" <emmar@ldeo.columbia.edu>]

Title: Re: Permian Footprints: references

hey all,

if anyone was interested, here are the refs. various people were talking about; and some others, on Permian tracks.

emma

Baird, D. 1980. A prosauropod dinosaur trackway from the Navajo Sandstone (Lower Jurassic) of Arizona; pp. 219-230 in L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Aspects of Vertebrate History. Museum of Northern Arizona Press, Flagstaff.

[Description of "Navahopus falcipollex" - quadrupedal trackway attributed to prosauropods, on a dune foreset surface in the Early Jurassic Navajo Ss.

(Specimen is in the collections of the Museum of Northern Arizona; I think the book may still be available from the MNA bookstore)]

MacDonald, J.P. 1994. Earth's First Steps: tracking life before the dinosaurs. Johnson Books, 290 pp.

[General interest book on Permian tracks from New Mexico.]

Lucas, S.G. and A.B. Heckert. 1995. Early Permian Footprints and Facies. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 6. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque, 301 pp.

[collection of papers on Permian tracks; probably still available from the NM Museum bookstore.]

Hartmut Haubold has written numerous papers on tracks, including many from the Permian of Europe.

> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:03:37 
>  Danvarner wrote:
> >In a message dated 1/16/02 10:16:21 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> >dino.hunter@home.com writes:
> >
> >
> ><< Was a book written about this or a paper? I seem to
> remember something
> >about this. >>
>
> >       Sorry if someone's already
> mentioned this, but there was an
> >interesting paper about a prosauropod trackway on a sand dune in
> Louis
> >Jacobs, Ed. _Aspects of Vertebrate History_, published by the
> museum of
> >Northern Arizona. I no longer have it, but I think it was by Don
> Baird.
>
> IIRC, I believe that Tracy was referring to Permian sand dune
> footprints (although the reference Dan Varner refers to is
> interesting).  To answer Tracy's question, yes, there was a book
> published.  I believe it was written by Jerry MacDonald and
> focused on a set of Permian tracks he discovered in New Mexico, many
> of which he attributed to _Dimetrodon_.  There is a nice display
> of some of the tracks at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and
> Science in Albuquerque (at least there was this past summer).
>
> Steve
>
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