My research of tracks on the V. Brijun island from 2012: a couple of apparent large iguanodontoid footprints facing up and a large theropod footprint between them, facing down in the image.
Showing posts with label iguanodontoid tracks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iguanodontoid tracks. Show all posts
Monday, 3 October 2016
Tuesday, 19 April 2016
Bad news
A few fossil tracks in Pula were recently destroyed. One giant natural cast of an iguanodontoid footprint got buried under a huge pile of pebbles. It happened during the unusually strong Yugo storm. Maybe it reappears again some day. Some other tracks were buried with it.
Another giant iguanodontoid track (a natural cast) was destroyed by some construction works at the coast. I am hoping that the rock containing the fossil is still somewhere at the site and not completely devastated (image before it was removed).
Another giant iguanodontoid track (a natural cast) was destroyed by some construction works at the coast. I am hoping that the rock containing the fossil is still somewhere at the site and not completely devastated (image before it was removed).
Tuesday, 6 May 2014
Ankylosaur dinoturbation
About a hundred meters down the beach, from the dinoturbation where the sauropod tracks prevail (where the iguanodontoid track from my previous post was photographed), at roughly the same level is another dinoturbation. It's also brecciated, but it seems that thyreophoran tracks are predominant. There is also a track of a giant theropod there and of a few smaller ones.
In the photograph below is one of the better preserved pes tracks. It is a cast of apparently the right pes. Roughly 45 cm long. It is a part of a poorly preserved trackway which stretches some 15 meters.
Parallel to it is another trackway left by the animal of the similar size. At the end of the trackway are a few huge, probably thyreophoran pes prints. It seems that there are also tracks of juvenile ankylosaurs present. The three size classes of the same type of dinosaurs, on the same site, might indicate a structured gregarious behaviour.
In the image on the right is my interpretative red outline and the black outline is Sauropelta right pes track interpretation from Carpenter.
In the photograph below is one of the better preserved pes tracks. It is a cast of apparently the right pes. Roughly 45 cm long. It is a part of a poorly preserved trackway which stretches some 15 meters.
Parallel to it is another trackway left by the animal of the similar size. At the end of the trackway are a few huge, probably thyreophoran pes prints. It seems that there are also tracks of juvenile ankylosaurs present. The three size classes of the same type of dinosaurs, on the same site, might indicate a structured gregarious behaviour.
In the image on the right is my interpretative red outline and the black outline is Sauropelta right pes track interpretation from Carpenter.
A more recent research at the site revealed that this was in fact the right manus print (natural cast) of the large ankylosaur. The pes track is partially visible in the left corner of the photo.
Monday, 5 May 2014
Large iguanodontoid track
Here we are back on a Pula beach (late Albian). This is the same sauropod dinoturbated site where I have found a couple of speculative "stegosaur" prints (which in fact might just be the small sauropod ones - see my previous posts for details). What you are looking at, I believe might be a partial print of a large iguanodontoid pes (a natural cast). I have found indications of more prints of the similar size near by. Unfortunately, none of the prints is a "perfect" specimen that would make everybody convinced. The dinoturbated, brecciated surface is full of large and small sauropod tracks. There are also some theropod tracks.
For scale: the little black bag is 13 cm long and you can see the tip of my sandal and toes in the left upper corner.
For scale: the little black bag is 13 cm long and you can see the tip of my sandal and toes in the left upper corner.
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