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Dinosaur Footprints and Trackways of La Rioja

By Felix , Pérez-Lorente

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780253015150, 9780253015419
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
23 MB (24614361 bytes)
Series
Life of the Past
Pages
374\374
Topic
Geology
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2015-08-10 14:50:24
Dinosaur tracks Spain La Rioja Dinosaurs Footprint

Description

During the Early Cretaceous, lakes, meandering streams, and flood plains covered the region where the current foothills of Rioja now exist. Today the area is known for its wine and for the dozens of sites where footprints and trackways of dinosaurs, amphibians, and even pterosaurs can be seen. The dinosaurs that lived here 120 million years ago left their footsteps imprinted in the mud and moist soil. Now fossilized in rock, they have turned Rioja into one of the most valuable dinosaur footprint sites in all of Europe. Félix Pérez- Lorente and his colleagues have published extensively on the region, mostly in Spanish-language journals. In this volume, Pérez-Lorente provides an up-to-date synthesis of that research in English. He offers detailed descriptions of the sites, footprints, and trackways, and explains what these prints and tracks can tell us about the animals who made them.

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