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.