First record of stegosaur dinosaur tracks in the Lower Cretaceous (Berriasian) of Europe (Oncala group, Soria, Spain)

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Nieves Hernández¹  Carlos Pascual¹  Diego Castanera¹  José Luis Barco¹  José Ignacio Canudo¹ 

关键词: Stegosauria;    Deltapodus;    Berriasian;    Cameros Basin;    Soria;    Spain;    Stegosauria;    Deltapodus;    Berriasien;    bassin de Cameros;    Soria;    Espagne;   

DOI  :  10.5252/g2012n2a4

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Museum National d Histoire Naturelle

【 摘 要 】

ThispaperdescribesforthefirsttimeastegosaurtrackfromtheCretaceousofEurope.Itfocusesonacastthatpreservespes-manustracksrecoveredintheHuértelesAlloformationoftheBerriasianofSoria(northernSpain).ThistrackhasbeenassignedtoDeltapodusisp.onthebasisofthepesmorphology.Nonetheless,inthemanuslackstheclaw-shapedimprintofthepollexthatcharacterizesDeltapodusbrodrickiWhyteamp;Romano,1994,thetypeichnospeciesoftheichnogenusDeltapodusWhyteamp;Romano,1994.ThestegosaurswereabundantanddiverseintheLateJurassicoftheIberianPeninsula,asevidencedbytheirichnologicalandosseousrecord.ThepresenceofDeltapodusisp.providesfurthersupportfortheviewthatthestegosaursdidnotdisappearintheJurassic-CretaceousboundarycrisisandkeptgoingontheIberianPeninsulaforatleastfortheinitialpartoftheEarlyCretaceous.

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