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| An unusual sauropod turning trackway from the Early Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China | |
| Xing, Lida1; Marty, Daniel2; Wang, Kebai3; Lockley, Martin G.4; Chen, Shuqing3; Xu, Xing5; Liu, Yongqing6; Kuang, Hongwei6; Zhang, Jianping1; Ran, Hao7; Persons, W. Scott8 | |
| 2015-11-01 | |
| 发表期刊 | PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
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| 卷号 | 437页码:74-84 |
| 文章类型 | Article |
| 摘要 | An unusual turning and a regular, straight sauropod trackway both left by small trackmakers, as well as additional isolated medium-sized to large sauropod tracks are described from the Early Cretaceous Dasheng Group of the Zhucheng Basin, Shandong Province, China. Based mainly on well-preserved tracks exhibiting three forwardly-directed digit/claw impressions and a pronounced heteropody, and to a lesser degree due to a predominantly narrow to medium trackway gauge, the two small trackway are assigned to the Parabrontopodus ichnotaxon. As there is no clear trackway and no well-preserved tracks amongst the medium-sized to large sauropod tracks, these tracks can only be identified as of sauropod origin but they cannot be assigned to an ichnotaxon. The unusual turning trackway is characterized by a highly variable trackway configuration (pes and manus outward rotation, gauge, pace, stride) and pattern (different degree of manus overprinting by pes tracks) along its course, evidently related to the narrow, semicircular turn to the left that the animal made. This is also associated with a pronounced change from a narrow medium (in the straight part at the beginning) to a (very) wide (within the turn) gauge. This demonstrates that these two stances could have been used by one and the same sauropod trackmaker, even if in the present case associated with turning and not simply during straight progression, as it was already reported from a Late Jurassic tracksite from NW Switzerland and an Early Cretaceous tracksite from Spain. Such 'untypical' trackways provide important constraints for the reconstruction of locomotor characteristics of sauropods such as unsteady locomotion and changes in locomotor behavior, and they will be of particular interest in the future to model and understand the different locomotor styles/capabilities' sauropods were engaged in. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
| 关键词 | Dinosaur Track Sauropoda Turning Trackway Trackway Configuration & Pattern Locomotion Gait Parabrontopodus |
| WOS标题词 | Science & Technology ; Physical Sciences ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine |
| 关键词[WOS] | DINOSAUR TRACKSITE ; SICHUAN PROVINCE ; ZHUCHENG AREA ; THEROPOD ; SWITZERLAND ; ICHNOTAXON |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS研究方向 | Physical Geography ; Geology ; Paleontology |
| WOS类目 | Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary ; Paleontology |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000361074100008 |
| 引用统计 | |
| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/7482 |
| 专题 | 中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后） |
| 作者单位 | 1.China Univ Geosci, Sch Earth Sci & Resources, Beijing 100083, Peoples R China 2.Nat Hist Museum Basel, CH-4001 Basel, Switzerland 3.Dinosaur Res Ctr Zhucheng, Zhucheng 262200, Peoples R China 4.Univ Colorado, Dinosaur Trackers Res Grp, Denver, CO 80217 USA 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Evolutionary Systemat Vertebrates, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 6.Chinese Acad Geol Sci, Inst Geol, Beijing 100037, Peoples R China 7.Minist Educ, Key Lab Ecol Rare & Endangered Species & Environm, Guilin 541004, Peoples R China 8.Univ Alberta, Dept Biol Sci, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Xing, Lida,Marty, Daniel,Wang, Kebai,et al. An unusual sauropod turning trackway from the Early Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China[J]. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY,2015,437:74-84. |
| APA | Xing, Lida.,Marty, Daniel.,Wang, Kebai.,Lockley, Martin G..,Chen, Shuqing.,...&Persons, W. Scott.(2015).An unusual sauropod turning trackway from the Early Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China.PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY,437,74-84. |
| MLA | Xing, Lida,et al."An unusual sauropod turning trackway from the Early Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China".PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY 437(2015):74-84. |
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