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Tracks and Traces: New Perspectives on Dinosaurian Behavior, Ecology, and Biogeography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2017

Martin G. Lockley
Martin G. Lockley*
Affiliation:
University of Colorado at Denver, Geology Department, 1200 Larimer Street, Box 172, Denver, CO 80204
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Conventional paleontological wisdom holds that there are two major categories of fossil evidence: body fossils (skeletal remains), and trace fossils (including tracks and traces). Ichnology, the study of trace fossils, requires a parallel taxonomy of scientific names (parataxonomy or ichnotaxonomy), like the form taxa of fossil plant remains. This ichnotaxonomy describes a large variety of traces attributable to invertebrates (Hantzschel, 1975) and vertebrates (Haubold, 1984; Leonardi, 1984; Leonardi et al., 1986).

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Research Article
Information
Short Courses in Paleontology , Volume 2: The Age of Dinosaurs , 1989 , pp. 134 - 145
Copyright
Copyright © 1989 Paleontological Society 

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