Jarrate LbelNew Upper Cretaceous continental site in Morocco. A probable ornitischian non-onithopod trackway and three amble gait titanosauriform trackways

  1. L. Boudchiche 1
  2. M. Masrour 2
  3. M. Boutakiout 3
  4. L. Hamzaoui 4
  5. J.s Herrero Gascón 5
  6. F. Pérez-Lorente 6
  1. 1 Université Mohammed I, Oujda. Maroc
  2. 2 Université Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Maroc
  3. 3 Université Mohamed V, Rabat. Maroc
  4. 4 12 boulevard Kafr Kacem, al Qods Oujda, Maroc
  5. 5 El Horno, Moscardón, Teruel
  6. 6 Universidad de La Rioja
    info

    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

Show affiliations +
Journal:
Geogaceta

ISSN: 0213-683X

Year of publication: 2017

Issue: 61

Pages: 19-22

Type: Article

DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openArias Montano editor

More publications in: Geogaceta

Abstract

In this paper a new Upper Cretaceous site with sauropod footprints is described. The outcrop, found in Chott Tigri, in the meridional area of the High Plateau of Morocco, between the Saharan Atlas and the Middle Atlas, is separate from other known sites with dinosaur footprints. We have found: three trackways of titanosauriform features and variable gauge, and one trackway of an unknown dinosaur that we attribute to an ornithischian quadruped, but not an ornithopod. In this paper we have implemented calculations based on trackway analysis to deduce the glenoacetabular distance distance and the type of gait.In the three sauropod trackways the data are consistent with amble gait.

Data source: Dialnet