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Dinosaur Footprints and Trackways of La Rioja

Dinosaur Footprints and Trackways of La Rioja

Pérez-Lorente, Félix

Hardcover

Series: Life of the Past

GeologyNature WritingPaleontology

ISBN10: 0253015154
ISBN13: 9780253015150
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Published: Jul 6 2015
Pages: 376
Weight: 2.10
Height: 1.20 Width: 7.30 Depth: 10.20
Language: English

During the Early Cretaceous, lakes, meandering streams, and flood plains covered the region where the current foothills of Rioja now exist. Today the area is known for its wine and for the dozens of sites where footprints and trackways of dinosaurs, amphibians, and even pterosaurs can be seen. The dinosaurs that lived here 120 million years ago left their footsteps imprinted in the mud and moist soil. Now fossilized in rock, they have turned Rioja into one of the most valuable dinosaur footprint sites in all of Europe. Félix Pérez-Lorente and his colleagues have published extensively on the region, mostly in Spanish-language journals. In this volume, Pérez-Lorente provides an up-to-date synthesis of that research in English. He offers detailed descriptions of the sites, footprints, and trackways, and explains what these prints and tracks can tell us about the animals who made them.

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