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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.
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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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