Ben Creisler
Recent papers not yet mentioned, with free pdfs:
Mike Romano, Neil D. L. Clark and Stephen L. Brusatte (2018)
A Comparison of the Dinosaur Communities from the Middle Jurassic of the Cleveland (Yorkshire) and Hebrides (Skye) Basins, Based on Their Ichnites.
Geosciences 8(9): 327
Despite the Hebrides and Cleveland basins being geographically close, research has not previously been carried out to determine faunal similarities and assess the possibility of links between the dinosaur populations. The palaeogeography of both areas during the Middle Jurassic shows that there were no elevated landmasses being eroded to produce conglomeratic material in the basins at that time. The low-lying landscape and connected shorelines may have provided connectivity between the two dinosaur populations. The dinosaur fauna of the Hebrides and Cleveland basins has been assessed based primarily on the abundant ichnites found in both areas as well as their skeletal remains. In the two basins, the dinosaur faunas are very similar, consisting of non-neosauropod eusauropods, a possible basal titanosauriform, large and small theropods and ornithopods and europodan thyreophorans. The main difference in the faunas is in the sizes. In the Cleveland Basin, the ichnites suggest that there were medium and large theropods alongside small to medium sized ornithopods, whereas, in the Hebrides Basin, the theropods were from small to large and the ornithopods were medium to large. It is suggested that migrations could have taken place between the two areas during the Middle Jurassic. A tentative food chain from the herbivorous dinosaurs to the top predators can be inferred from the footprints.Â
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ZHANG Yanxia, CHEN Jun & FAN Yanyun (2018)Â
A Review of Footprints Fossils Research in Zhucheng Area in Shandong Province.
Shandong Land and Resources 34(6): 33-40 (in Chinese)
A huge number of Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossils have been found in Zhucheng area of Shandong province.There are not only a large number of early Cretaceous dinosaur skeleton fossils,but also huge amount of dinosaur footprint fossils in Zhucheng area.So far,3 dinosaur footprint fossils places have been found in Zhucheng city,they are Huanglong in the south,Zhangzhuhewan and Tangdigezhuang in the north.Based on previous study of three dinosaur footprint fossils places,the discovery and research history,footprints(including non dinosaur footprints),the size and characteristics of different types of footprints,as well as palaeogeography and palaeoclimate have been summarized,and the problems which should be solved in studying Zhucheng dinosaur footprint fossils have been put forward.