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T. rex tracks ID issues
From: Ben Creisler
bh480@scn.org
In new Ichnos:
Martin Lockley, Paul R. Janke & Mike Triebold (2011)
Tracking Tyrannosaurus: Notes on Purported T. rex Tracks
Ichnos 8 (3): 172-175
DOI:10.1080/10420940.2011.601375
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10420940.2011.6
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Abstract
Purported T. rex tracks (genus Tyrannosaurus) are rare
and, if poorly preserved, difficult to identify or to
distinguish with certainty from the tracks of hadrosaurs
found in the same deposits. Six possible Tyrannosaurus
tracks have been reported, five of which appear to be the
right age, that is, Maastrichtian. However, at least two,
including one that is pre-Maastrichtian, are interpreted
as hadrosaur tracks.