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Título: | Large theropod dinosaur footprint associations in western Gondwana: Behavioural and palaeogeographic implications |
Autor(es): | Moreno, Karen de Valais, Silvina Blanco, Nicolás Tomlinson, Andrew Jacay, Javier Calvo, Jorge O. |
Fecha de publicación: | 2012 |
Editorial: | Polska Akademia Nauk |
Citación: | Moreno, K., De Valais, S., Blanco, N., Tomlinson, A.J., Jacay, J., and Calvo, J.O. (2012). Large theropod dinosaur footprint associations in western Gondwana: Behavioural and palaeogeographic implications. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 57 (1); 73–83. |
Revista: | Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |
Abstract: | In modern terrestrial ecosystems, the population size of large predators is low, and a similar pattern has usually been assumed for dinosaurs. However, fossil finds of monospecific, large theropod accumulations suggest that population dynamics were more complex. Here, we report two Early Cretaceous tracksites dominated by large theropod footprints, in Querulpa Chico (Peru) and Chacarilla (Chile). The two sites correspond to distinct depositional environments—tidal basin/delta (Querulpa Chico) and meandering river (Chacarilla)—with both subject to extensive arid or semiarid palaeoclimatic conditions. Although most trackways show no preferred orientation, a clear relationship between two trackmakers is observed in one instance. This observation, coupled with the high abundance of trackways belonging to distinct large theropods, and the exclusion of tracks of other animals, suggests some degree of grouping behaviour. The presence of freshwater sources in a dry climate and perhaps social behaviour such as pair bonding may have promoted interactions between large carnivores. Further, the occurrence of these two tracksites confirms that large theropod dinosaurs, possibly spinosaurids and/or carcharodontosaurids, existed on the western margin of Gondwana as early as the earliest Cretaceous. |
Resumen: | - |
URI: | https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/4f87c008-f542-321b-aed5-6c841cc8cdd1/ http://rid.unrn.edu.ar/handle/20.500.12049/5873 |
Identificador DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2010.0119 |
ISSN: | 1732-2421 0567-7920 |
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