Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous trackways of small-sized sauropods from China New discoveries, ichnotaxonomy and sauropod manus morphology》.pdfVIP

Cretaceous Research 56 (2015) 470e481 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Cretaceous Research journal homepage: /locate/CretRes Late JurassiceEarly Cretaceous trackways of small-sized sauropods from China: New discoveries, ichnotaxonomy and sauropod manus morphology Lida Xing a, *, Martin G. Lockley b, Matthew F. Bonnan c, Daniel Marty d, Hendrik Klein e, Yongqing Liu f, Jianping Zhang a, Hongwei Kuang f, Michael E. Burns g, Nan Li a a School of the Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China b Dinosaur Trackers Research Group, University of Colorado Denver, P.O. Box 173364, Denver, CO 80217, USA c Biology Program, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, 101 Vera King Farris Drive, Galloway, NJ 08205, USA d Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Augustinergasse 2, 4001 Basel, Switzerland e € Saurierwelt Palaontologisches Museum, Alte Richt 7, D-92318 Neumarkt, Germany f Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Science, Beijing 100037, China g Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, 11455 Saskatchewan Drive, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The growing database on sauropod tracksites, particularly from China, raises questions about hypotheses Received 5 January 2015 that wide-gauge sauropod trackways with low heteropody (Brontopodus) dominate the global sauropod Received in revised form track record in the Cretaceous. It also raises questions about the definition of narrow-, medium- and 16 June 2015