Permian Footprints

["Steve Brusatte" <dinoland@lycos.com>]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:03:37  
 Danvarner wrote:
>In a message dated 1/16/02 10:16:21 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
>dino.hunter@home.com writes:
>
>
><< Was a book written about this or a paper? I seem to remember something 
>about this. >>

>       Sorry if someone's already mentioned this, but there was an 
>interesting paper about a prosauropod trackway on a sand dune in Louis 
>Jacobs, Ed. _Aspects of Vertebrate History_, published by the museum of 
>Northern Arizona. I no longer have it, but I think it was by Don Baird.

IIRC, I believe that Tracy was referring to Permian sand dune footprints 
(although the reference Dan Varner refers to is interesting).  To answer 
Tracy's question, yes, there was a book published.  I believe it was written by 
Jerry MacDonald and focused on a set of Permian tracks he discovered in New 
Mexico, many of which he attributed to _Dimetrodon_.  There is a nice display 
of some of the tracks at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science 
in Albuquerque (at least there was this past summer).

Steve

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