Preliminary report of a large theropod dinosaur trackway in Clarens Formation sandstone (Early Jurassic) in the Paul Roux district, northeastern Free State, South Africa

dc.contributor.author	Raath, Michael A.
dc.contributor.author	Yates, Adam M.
dc.date.accessioned	2014-12-15T23:26:22Z
dc.date.available	2014-12-15T23:26:22Z
dc.date.issued	2005
dc.description.abstract	An isolated fallen block of Clarens Formation sandstone near the small northeastern Free State town of Paul Roux preserves part of the trackway of a bipedal dinosaur. Although well known as a local curiosity, this trackway has not previously been formally reported or described. It consists of five successive paces of what is interpreted as a medium-sized to large theropod dinosaur, and represents the largest known theropod trackway in the ‘Stormberg’ sequence in South Africa. The tracks are assigned to the ichnotaxon Grallator sp., and show similarities to North American tracks of comparable age originally described as Dilophosauripus. Until now no body fossils of a likely candidate trackmaker were known, but elsewhere in this volume a possible candidate is described by the second author.	en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn	0078-8554
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10539/16003
dc.language.iso	en	en_ZA
dc.publisher	BERNARD PRICE INSTITUTE FOR PALAEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH	en_ZA
dc.title	Preliminary report of a large theropod dinosaur trackway in Clarens Formation sandstone (Early Jurassic) in the Paul Roux district, northeastern Free State, South Africa	en_ZA
dc.type	Article	en_ZA

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