Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of Europe - Hardcover

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Martin Lockley is professor of geology and director of the Dinosaur Trackers Research Group at the University of Colorado, Denver, and is the author of five books on fossil footprints and several hundred scientific articles on diverse subjects in paleontology.

Christian Meyer is currently an invited professor at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

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The long and distinguished tradition of tracking dinosaurs and other extinct animals in Europe dates back to the 1830s. Yet this venerable tradition of scientific activity cannot compare in magnitude and scope with the unprecedented spate of discovery and documentation of the last few years. Now, following on the heels of his Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of the Western United States, Martin Lockley teams up with Christian Meyer to present an up-to-date synthesis of the recent findings in the field of European fossil footprints. Drawing extensively on their own research results from studies in Britain, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, and elsewhere, the authors create a dynamic picture of mammal, reptile, bird, and amphibian trackmakers through more than 300 million years of vertebrate evolution, placed in the context of Europe's changing ancient environments.

Beginning with an introduction to and history of the European tracking tradition, Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of Europe charts a broad path through the Paleozoic evolutionary history of predinosaurian vertebrates to the Mesozoic rise of dinosaurs and their eventual disappearance at the end of the Cretaceous. The survey continues into the age of mammals and birds, ending with the cave art and footprints of our Paleolithic ancestors.