Saturday, March 12, 2016

Titanopodus

Discoveries of dinosaur fossil footprints and their cultural, educational and tourist application for Argentina



Titanosaur sauropods in Mendoza (Argentina), 71 million year ago. These criatures of 13 m long  produced the Titanopodus footprints (Credit, illustration of B. Gonzalez Riga)



The scientific publications are:

Calvo, J.O.; González Riga, B.J.; Apesteguía, S.; Tomaselli, M.B. 2022. Sauropod Ichnology: Overview and new research lines from a South American perspective (Chapter 14). In: Otero, A.; Carballido, J.L.; Pol, D. (Eds.). South American Sauropodomorph dinosaurs: record, diversity and evolution. Springer Earth System Sciences, pp. 503–540.


Tomaselli, M.B.; Ortiz David, L.D.; González Riga, B.J. 2021a. Paleoenvironmental contexts of South American Cretaceous sauropod tracks. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 110: 103393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103393

 

Tomaselli, M.B.; Ortiz David, L.D.; González Riga, B.J.; Coria, J.P.; Mercado, C.R.; Guerra, M.; Sánchez Tiviroli, G. 2021b. New titanosaurian sauropod tracks with exceptionally well-preserved claw impressions from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina. Cretaceous Research 129: 104990. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104990


González Riga, B.J. and Calvo, J. 2009. A new wide-gauge Sauropod track site from the Late Cretaceous of Mendoza, Neuquén Basin, Argentina. Palaeontology 52(3): 631-640.
 
Gonzalez Riga, B.J. 2011. Speeds and stance of titanosaur sauropods: analysis of Titanopodus tracks from the Late Cretaceous of Mendoza, Argentina. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 83(1): 279-290. 

González Riga, B.J., Ortiz David, L., Tomaselli, B., Candeiro, R., Coria, J.P., and Pramparo, M. 2015. Sauropod and theropod dinosaur tracks from the Upper Cretaceous of Mendoza (Argentina): Trackmakers and anatomical aspects.  Journal of South American Earth Sciences 61: 134-141.



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