Anza palaeoichnological site. Late Cretaceous. Morocco. Part II. Problems of large dinosaur trackways and the first African Macropodosaurus trackway
- Masrour, M. 1
- Lkebir, N. 1
- Pérez-Lorente, F. 2
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Université Ibn Zohr
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Universidad de La Rioja
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ISSN: 1464-343X
Year of publication: 2017
Volume: 134
Pages: 776-793
Type: Article
More publications in: Journal of African Earth Sciences
Abstract
The Anza site shows large ichnological surfaces indicating the coexistence in the same area of different vertebrate footprints (dinosaur and pterosaur) and of different types (tridactyl and tetradactyl, semiplantigrade and rounded without digit marks) and the footprint variability of long trackways. This area may become a world reference in ichnology because it contains the second undebatable African site with Cretaceous pterosaur footprints - described in part I - and the first African site with Macropodosaurus footprints. In this work, problems related to long trackways are also analyzed, such as their sinuosity, the order-disorder of the variability (long-short) of the pace length and the difficulty of morphological classification of the theropod footprints due to their morphological variability. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd.