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Dinosaur Footprints & Trackways of La Rioja
Félix Pérez-Lorente
出版Indiana University Press, 2015-07-06
主題Science / PaleontologyScience / Natural HistoryScience / ReferenceScience / Life Sciences / Evolution
ISBN02530154139780253015419
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=z4fmCQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋A guide to this fossil-rich area of Spain: “Likely to become a landmark reference in dinosaur ichnology.” —James O. Farlow

During the Early Cretaceous, lakes, meandering streams, and flood plains covered the region where the current foothills of Rioja now exist. Today the area is known for its wine and for the dozens of sites where footprints and trackways of dinosaurs, amphibians, and even pterosaurs can be seen.

The dinosaurs that lived here 120 million years ago left their footsteps imprinted in the mud and moist soil. Now fossilized in rock, they have turned Rioja into one of the most valuable dinosaur footprint sites in all of Europe. Félix Pérez-Lorente and his colleagues have published extensively on the region, mostly in Spanish-language journals. In this volume, Pérez-Lorente provides an up-to-date synthesis of that research in English. He offers detailed descriptions of the sites, footprints, and trackways—and explains what these prints and tracks can tell us about the animals who made them.