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Re-Examination of Some Large Early Mesozoic Tetrapod Footprints from the African Collection of Paul Ellenberger

Simone D’Orazi Porchetti Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
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Umberto Nicosia Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Pages 219-245 | Published online: 31 May 2007

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Martin G. Lockley, Jens N. Lallensack, Lara Sciscio & Emese M. Bordy. (2023) The early Mesozoic saurischian trackways Evazoum and Otozoum: implications for ‘prosauropod’ (basal sauropodomorph) gaits. Historical Biology 0:0, pages 1-19.
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Miengah Abrahams, Emese M. Bordy, Lara Sciscio & Fabien Knoll. (2017) Scampering, trotting, walking tridactyl bipedal dinosaurs in southern Africa: ichnological account of a Lower Jurassic palaeosurface (upper Elliot Formation, Roma Valley) in Lesotho. Historical Biology 29:7, pages 958-975.
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Eva Sacchi, Richard Cifelli, Paolo Citton, Umberto Nicosia & Marco Romano. (2014) Dimetropus osageorum n. isp. from the Early Permian of Oklahoma (USA): A Trace and its Trackmaker. Ichnos 21:3, pages 175-192.
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SpencerG. Lucas & AndrewB. Heckert. (2011) Late Triassic Aetosaurs as the Trackmaker of the Tetrapod Footprint Ichnotaxon Brachychirotherium . Ichnos 18:4, pages 197-208.
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Lorenzo Marchetti, Matteo Belvedere, Sebastian Voigt, Hendrik Klein, Diego Castanera, Ignacio Díaz-Martínez, Daniel Marty, Lida Xing, Silverio Feola & Ricardo N. Melchor. (2020) Reply to discussion of “Defining the morphological quality of fossil footprints. Problems and principles of preservation in tetrapod ichnology with examples from the Palaeozoic to the present” by Marchetti et al. (2019). Earth-Science Reviews 208, pages 103319.
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Emese M. Bordy, Miengah Abrahams, Glenn R. Sharman, Pia A. Viglietti, Roger B.J. Benson, Blair W. McPhee, Paul M. Barrett, Lara Sciscio, Daniel Condon, Roland Mundil, Zandri Rademan, Zubair Jinnah, James M. Clark, Celina A. Suarez, Kimberley E.J. Chapelle & Jonah N. Choiniere. (2020) A chronostratigraphic framework for the upper Stormberg Group: Implications for the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in southern Africa. Earth-Science Reviews 203, pages 103120.
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