5TH IGANADON MANUS IMPRINT (FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS OF MARYLAND) FOUND

["Ray Stanford" <dinotracker@earthlink.net>]

For any interested list members:

    Yesterday (9-6-01), I found the best
Iguanadon manus impression of which I have any knowledge.  It is wonderful,
with a
deep, clear 'mitten' impression in which one can easily distinguish the
three digits enclosed.  I am also happy that it happens to be in the
hardest, most highly silicified type substrate in which we find tracks.  At
roughly 9.0 cm across and with a 'mitten' 5.3 cm across, the manus
impression was evidently made by a juvenile.  I earlier have found a couple
of
larger Iguanadon manus imprints and a couple of smaller ones, but none so
spectacularly detailed, with excellent push-down. This kind of imprint seems
to be impressed when the animal is sitting or, maybe, reclining in a
couchant position (and then gets up).

    Also found:  another nice dinosaur ichnite (with multiple tridactyl
tracks), but it is not so
rare and potentially important as the manus impression.

Ray Stanford

"You know my method.  It is founded upon the observance of trifles." --
Sherlock Holmes in The Boscombe Valley Mystery