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RE: Leaping and hopping theropods
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Andrew Milner wrote:
There is no real evidence of hopping dinosaur based on tracks, although
in 1984 a group of French researchers interpreted a trackway as that of
a hopping theropod dinosaur. It was named _Saltosauripus_, but this
trackway was reevaluated by Thulborn as being turtle traces.
Mention of this in Lockley's "Tracking Dinosaurs"
http://books.google.com/books?id=DHg4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=Saltosauripus+tracks&source=bl&ots=7it2ZKjgzA&sig=B7LJdZSMCRbKbZ0C2-ir0OdCj5U&hl=en&ei=2Q_lSrWFN8Oj8AbwyaSIBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Saltosauri
pus%20tracks&f=false
or
http://tinyurl.com/yho67zr