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Did “Brontosaurus”; ever swim out to sea?: Evidence from brontosaur and other dinosaur footprints

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Pages 81-90 | Published online: 17 Dec 2008

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Umberto Nicosia, Fabio Massimo Petti, Gianluca Perugini, Simone D’Orazi Porchetti, Eva Sacchi, Maria Alessandra Conti, Nino Mariotti & Annalisa Zarattini. (2007) Dinosaur Tracks as Paleogeographic Constraints: New Scenarios for the Cretaceous Geography of the Periadriatic Region. Ichnos 14:1-2, pages 69-90.
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Martin Lockley, Adrian Hunt, Marc Paquette, Sue‐Ann Bilbey & Alden Hamblin. (1998) Dinosaur tracks from the Carmel formation, northeastern Utah: Implications for middle Jurassic paleoecology. Ichnos 5:4, pages 255-267.
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MartinG. Lockley, AdrianP. Hunt, Joaquin Moratalla & Masaki Matsukawa. (1994) Limping Dinosaurs? Trackway evidence for abnormal gaits. Ichnos 3:3, pages 193-202.
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Martin G. Lockley, A. Guy Plint, Charles W. Helm, Kevin J. Sharman & Kathleen M. Vannelli. (2021) Crocodylian swim tracks from the Gates Formation (Albian), British Columbia, Canada: comparisons with Cretaceous crocodylian ichnology in western USA. Cretaceous Research 128, pages 104967.
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Facundo Riguetti, Paolo Citton, Sebastián Apesteguía, Gerardo Gabriel Zacarías & Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola. (2021) New ankylosaurian trackways (cf. Tetrapodosaurus) from an uppermost Cretaceous level of the El Molino Formation of Bolivia. Cretaceous Research 124, pages 104810.
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LEO SZEWCZYK, EMMANUELLE VENNIN, JEAN-DAVID MOREAU, GEORGES GAND, MICHEL VEROLET, NICOLAS KLEE & EMMANUEL FARA. (2020) TRACKING DINOSAURS IN COARSE-GRAINED SEDIMENTS FROM THE UPPER TRIASSIC OF ARDÈCHE (SOUTHEASTERN FRANCE). PALAIOS 35:11, pages 447-460.
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Martin G. Lockley, Jong Deock Lim, Hong Deock Park, Anthony Romilio, Jae Sang Yoo, Ji Won Choi, Kyung Soo Kim, Yeongi Choi, Seung-Hyeop Kang, Dong Hee Kim & Tae Hyeong Kim. (2020) First reports of Crocodylopodus from East Asia: implications for the paleoecology of the Lower Cretaceous. Cretaceous Research 111, pages 104441.
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Kyung Soo Kim, Martin G. Lockley, Jong Deock Lim, Seul Mi Bae & Anthony Romilio. (2020) Trackway evidence for large bipedal crocodylomorphs from the Cretaceous of Korea. Scientific Reports 10:1.
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Lida Xing, Martin G. Lockley, Hendrik Klein, Liang Qiu, Chunyong Chou, Donghao Wang & W. Scott PersonsIVIV. (2019) A Lower Cretaceous dinosaur track assemblage from the Taoqihe Formation in Central Heilongjiang, China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 532, pages 109275.
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Martin G. Lockley, Lida Xing & Xing Xu. (2019) The “lost” holotype of Laiyangpus liui (Lower Cretaceous, Shandong Province, China) is found: Implications for trackmaker identification, ichnotaxonomy and interpretation of turtle tracks. Cretaceous Research 95, pages 260-267.
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Lida Xing, Martin G. Lockley, Dongjie Tang, Hendrik Klein, Guangzhao Peng, Yong Ye & Baoqiao Hao. (2019) Early Jurassic basal sauropodomorpha dominated tracks from Guizhou, China: Morphology, ethology, and paleoenvironment. Geoscience Frontiers 10:1, pages 229-240.
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Li-Da Xing, Martin G. Lockley, Hendrik Klein, Jian-Ping Zhang, Tao Wang, W. Scott PersonsIVIV & Zhi-Ming Dong. (2016) A tetrapod footprint assemblage with possible swim traces from the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary, Anning Formation, Konglongshan, Yunnan, China. Palaeoworld 25:3, pages 444-452.
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Lida Xing, Daqing Li, Peter L. Falkingham, Martin G. Lockley, Michael J. Benton, Hendrik Klein, Jianping Zhang, Hao Ran, W. Scott PersonsIVIV & Hui Dai. (2016) Digit-only sauropod pes trackways from China – evidence of swimming or a preservational phenomenon?. Scientific Reports 6:1.
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Lida Xing, Martin G. Lockley, Daniel Marty, Laura Piñuela, Hendrik Klein, Jianping Zhang & W. Scott Persons. (2015) Re-description of the partially collapsed Early Cretaceous Zhaojue dinosaur tracksite (Sichuan Province, China) by using previously registered video coverage. Cretaceous Research 52, pages 138-152.
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Matthew R. Bennett, Sarita A. Morse & Peter L. Falkingham. (2014) Tracks made by swimming Hippopotami: An example from Koobi Fora (Turkana Basin, Kenya). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 409, pages 9-23.
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Reiji Kukihara & Martin G. Lockley. (2012) Fossil footprints from the Dakota Group (Cretaceous) John Martin Reservoir, Bent County, Colorado: New insights into the paleoecology of the Dinosaur Freeway. Cretaceous Research 33:1, pages 165-182.
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Jaouad Nouri, Ignacio Díaz-Martínez & Félix Pérez-Lorente. (2011) Tetradactyl Footprints of an Unknown Affinity Theropod Dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Morocco. PLoS ONE 6:12, pages e26882.
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Koo-Geun Hwang, Martin G. Lockley, Min Huh & In Sung Paik. (2008) A reinterpretation of dinosaur footprints with internal ridges from the Upper Cretaceous Uhangri Formation, Korea. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 258:1-2, pages 59-70.
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