Provides information on tracking dinosaur tracks and fossil footprints.
What This Book Is About
1
(1)
Introduction: What We Can Learn From Fossil Footprints
2
(3)
Detective Work: How to Track Extinct Animals
5
(4)
Common Terms Used in Footprint Studies
6
(1)
Finding Footprints
7
(2)
Footprint Facts: The Smallest and Largest Tracks; the Longest Trackways
9
(4)
Modern Research on Fossil Footprints: Good and Bad Ideas
13
(4)
The Age of Fossil Footprints
17
(4)
Famous Trackers
21
(4)
How Fossil Tracks Are Preserved
25
(1)
Where to Find Tracks
26
(1)
A Guide to Important Fossil Footprints
27
(92)
Tracks of Invertebrates: Animals without Backbones
28
(5)
Vertebrate Traces: Animals with Backbones
33
(3)
Permian Tracks
36
(5)
Triassic Tracks
41
(6)
Early Jurassic Tracks
47
(7)
Middle Jurassic Tracks
54
(3)
Late Jurassic Tracks
57
(1)
A Photo Guide to Tracks of the Permian Through Late Cretaceous Periods
58
(61)
Early Cretaceous Tracks
84
(12)
Late Cretaceous Tracks
96
(5)
Tertiary Tracks
101
(10)
Ice Age Tracks
111
(5)
After the Ice Age
116
(3)
Further Reading
119
(1)
Index
120
(4)
Where to See Fossil Footprints
124
(1)
About the Authors
124
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