A dinosaur trackway from the Purbeck Beds of Swanage, England

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dc.contributor.authorNewman, B H
dc.date1990
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-05T13:50:48Z
dc.date.available2015-01-05T13:50:48Z
dc.date.issued1990
dc.description.abstractDuring 1962 a dinosaur trackway was unearthed in a quarry of Upper Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous building-stone at Langton Maltravers near Swanage. The primary tracks had been removed initially but secondary impressions were still visible and these were marked with black paint. It was concluded that the prints were made by a tridactyl bipedal species of dinosaur, probably of megalosaurian type. A quantity of overburden covered part of the trackway and it was arranged for this to be removed so that the primary tracks could be collected. The trackway, which was 22 metres long as preserved, showed a somewhat sinuous gait of a true biped with no tail-drag and only occasional evidence of what may have been front foot impressions. Two individuals had made the footprints, walking on a similar course about one metre apart. The tracks of these two were collected, as was a third trackway which went off at an angle to the right. Above the stratum containing the prints was another layer which contained prints of an undoubted iguanodontid type.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0078-8554
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/16152
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherBernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Researchen_ZA
dc.subjectUpper Jurassicen_ZA
dc.subjectLower Cretaceousen_ZA
dc.subjectLangton Maltraversen_ZA
dc.subjectornithopoden_ZA
dc.titleA dinosaur trackway from the Purbeck Beds of Swanage, Englanden_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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