Fluvial environments

RN Melchor, JF Genise, LA Buatois… - Developments in …, 2012 - Elsevier
This chapter reviews the present knowledge on the sedimentary facies distribution and
ichnofacies assignation of assemblages of trace fossils from fluvial environments, including …

Late Triassic terrestrial tetrapods: biostratigraphy, biochronology and biotic events

SG Lucas - The Late Triassic world: Earth in a time of transition, 2018 - Springer
The fossil record of Late Triassic tetrapods can be organized biostratigraphically and
biochronologically into five, temporally successive land-vertebrate faunachrons (LVFs) that …

Crocodylomorph, turtle and mammal tracks in dinosaur-dominated Middle–? Upper Jurassic and mid-Cretaceous ichnoassemblages of Morocco

H Klein, A Lagnaoui, GD Gierliński, H Saber… - Palaeogeography …, 2018 - Elsevier
We report tetrapod traces from two stratigraphic intervals in Morocco, and discuss their
palaeoecological implications. In the first interval, crocodylomorph footprints assigned to …

Pleistocene large reptile tracks and probable swim traces on South Africa's Cape south coast

CW Helm, HC Cawthra, X Combrink… - South African Journal …, 2020 - scielo.org.za
The Cape south coast of South Africa contains a wealth of Pleistocene vertebrate trace fossil
sites in aeolianites and cemented foreshore deposits. Published studies have described …

[HTML][HTML] Dinosaur swim tracks from the Lower Cretaceous of La Rioja, Spain: An ichnological approach to non-common behaviours

P Navarro-Lorbés, I Díaz-Martínez, JM Valle-Melón… - Cretaceous …, 2023 - Elsevier
The reconstruction of behavioural patterns performed by non-avian dinosaurs is an
important task of palaeontology in order to globally understand how these animals …

Application of vertebrate trace fossils to palaeoenvironmental analysis

RN Melchor - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2015 - Elsevier
This is a review of the main uses of vertebrate trace fossils, ichnofabrics and ichnofacies in
the palaeoenvironmental analysis of sedimentary sequences. The article accounts for the …

Lower Eocene footprints from northwest Washington, USA. Part 1: reptile tracks

GE Mustoe - Geosciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Lower Eocene fluvial strata in the Chuckanut Formation preserve abundant bird and
mammal tracks. Reptile trace fossils include footprints from a small turtle (ichnogenus …

Unique trackway on Permian Karoo shoreline provides evidence of temnospondyl locomotory behaviour

DP Groenewald, A Krüger, MO Day, CR Penn-Clarke… - PloS one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Large-bodied temnospondyl amphibians were the dominant predators in non-marine
aquatic ecosystems from the Carboniferous to the Middle Triassic. In the Permian-aged …

A diverse Late Cretaceous vertebrate tracksite from the Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia

SF Poropat, MA White, T Ziegler, AH Pentland… - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Abstract The Upper Cretaceous 'upper'Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia is world
famous for hosting Dinosaur Stampede National Monument at Lark Quarry Conservation …

A diverse, high-latitude ichnofauna from the Late Cretaceous Wapiti Formation, Alberta, Canada

F Fanti, PR Bell, RL Sissons - Cretaceous Research, 2013 - Elsevier
The Wapiti Formation in west-central Alberta preserves one of the most diverse Late
Cretaceous terrestrial track records yet identified in Canada. At least seven morphotypes are …