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DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.04.026
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Vertebrate footprints from the Kem Kem beds (Morocco): A novel ichnological approach to faunal reconstruction
作者: Belvedere M.; Jalil N.-E.; Breda A.; Gattolin G.; Bourget H.; Khaldoune F.; Dyke G.J.
刊名: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
ISSN: 0031-0182
出版年: 2013
卷: 383-384
起始页码: 52
结束页码: 58
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Cretaceous ; Kem Kem beds ; Morocco ; Palaeoecology ; Vertebrate ichnology
英文摘要: The first survey of vertebrate fossil tracks and trackways from the well-known Kem Kem beds of southern Morocco is here presented. The aims are to: (1) discuss the diversity of vertebrate trackmakers represented in two trace-yielding units at three localities, and (2) apply the novel data to ongoing debates about vertebrate ecological associations within the Kem Kem. The majority of the tracks we recorded from the Kem Kem are tridactyl theropod footprints; other dinosaurian track records include those of possible ornithopod dinosaurs, extremely rare as body fossils within Kem Kem collections. Traces of swimming turtles are reported, alongside the first tracks of crocodyliforms and possible pterosaurs to be recorded from the Moroccan Cretaceous (both unsurprising given their abundance as body fossil records in this region). Differences between the collected ichnological sample and faunal reconstructions made on the basis of skeletal evidence are discussed; as trace fossils record the same environment in which the trackmaker lived (i.e. not subject to post-mortem transportation), data of this type arguably provide a more precise palaeoecological sample than the heavily re-worked and usually fragmentary body fossils from the Kem Kem. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/69712
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作者单位: Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Southampton, European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, United Kingdom; Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Via G. Gradenigo 6, 35131 Padova, Italy; Department of Earth Sciences - Vertebrate Evolution and Palaeoenvironments, Université Cadi Ayyad, Faculty of Sciences Semlaia, Prince Moulay Abdellah Boulevard, P.O. Box 2390, Marrakech, Morocco; Museum of Natural History of Marrakesh, Allah El Fassi Boulevard, Marrakech, Morocco

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Belvedere M.,Jalil N.-E.,Breda A.,et al. Vertebrate footprints from the Kem Kem beds (Morocco): A novel ichnological approach to faunal reconstruction[J]. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,2013-01-01,383-384
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