K MAMMAL TRACK, JOBARIA, NEOCOMIAN

[<darren.naish@port.ac.uk>]

This email concerns various recent DML threads.

On Cretaceous mammal or mammal-like tracks, Ray 
Stanford asked...
 
>     Can anyone provide me with references to papers on possibly
>     related Cretaceous tracks?

See... Sarjeant, W. A. & Thulborn, R. A. 1986. Probable 
marsupial footprints from the Cretaceous sediments of 
British Columbia. _Can. J. Earth Sci._ 23, 1223-1227.

McCrea, R. T. & Sarjeant, W. A. 2001. New ichnotaxa of 
bird and mammal footprints from the Lower Cretaceous 
(Albian) Gates Formation of Alberta. In Tanke, D. H. & 
Carpenter, K. (eds) _Mesozoic Vertebrate Life_ Indiana Uni 
Press (Bloomington & Indianapolis), pp. 413-454. 

Tracy and Marco Auditore recently discussed application of 
the term 'Neocomian' in Cretaceous stratigraphy. 

I have been told by experienced stratigraphers that this term 
has actually been outlawed: some workers (including 
invertebrate palaeontologists) clearly feel very strongly that 
its use should be prevented as they regard it as misleading. 
There are references that back this up (I don't have them to 
hand) so it is surprising to see Neocomian still used in some 
modern literature. I learnt all this after showing an overhead 
at a conference in which the term was used (the diagram on 
the overhead was actually from Benton & Spencer's _Fossil 
Reptiles of Great Britain_).

George recently posted _Jobaria tenerensis_ as a new 
combination. The 'alternatively' spelt _Jobaria tiquidensis_ 
[sic - q instead of g] is used in Walker, C. & Ward, D. 2000. 
_Dorling Kindersley Handbooks: Fossils_ DK (London 
etc), pp. 320.

Darren Naish
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