Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of Europe

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.

1. Introduction to Tracking The Importance of Fossil Footprints How to Study Ancient Tracks Individual Behavior Where to Go Tracking Naming Footprints Who Dun It? Identifying Ancient Trackmakers Time and Time Again Collecting Footprint Data Social Behavior Using Trackways to Read Ancient Ecology: The Ichnofacies Concept Tracks and Bones: Two Pieces of an Incomplete Puzzle The Mysteries of Track Preservation 2. The Tradition of Tracking Dinosaurs in Europe Earliest Discoveries The Oldest European Trackmakers: I: Dragging Through the Devonian II: Cruising in the Carboniferous Of Deserts and Swamps Rotligiendes: Permian Trackway Heaven The German Summit Conference Stuck in the Mud: The Complete Trace of a Hammerhead Amphibian The First Pareiasaur Trackway Pangean Globetrotters 3. Dawn of the Mesozoic: The Early and Middle Triassic The Story of Chirotherium: The Dawn of the Archosaurs Sex in the Footprint Bed Tracks as Keys to Evolution and Locomotion Lizard ancestors and Proto-mammals with Hairy Feet The World's Oldest Dinosaur Tracks: Fact, Fiction, and Controversy Future Directions 4. The First Dinosaurs: The Late Triassic Epoch Welsh Dinosaurs at the Jolly Sailor Pub The March of the Prosauropods Learning Tracking from the Bushmen: "C'est l'Afrique" A Beautiful but Elusive Track High-Altitude Tracks in the Swiss Alps von Huene's Little Dinosaur Track: Coelurosaurichus Future Directions: Digging Deeper in the Late Triassic A Once Green and Pleasant Land 5. Early Jurassic Noah's Raven Visits Europe France: The Le Veillon Sites France: The Causses Region France: Sanary sur Mer Tracks from Swedish Coal Mines and Railroad Tunnels Tracking Dinosaurs in the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland Trackway Evidence for the Early Origin of Stegosaurs The First Sauropods? Evidence from Italy 6. The Dark Ages: Middle Jurassic Dinosaurs in the Great Deltas of Yorkshire Glimpse of a Dinosaur from the Dark Ages The First Iberian Sauropods Mr. Pooley's Enigmatic Track Discovery Dinosaur Tracks from the Western Isles The Tip of the Ichnologic Iceberg 7. The Age of Brontosaurs: Late Jurassic Megalosaur Tracks Sauropods on the Rise: Germany, Iberia, and Switzerland Baby Brontosaurs Social Sauropods The Swiss Megatracksite The Dinosaur Disco: An Ancient Stomping Ground Smaller Spoor Turtles and Hopping Dinosaurs Spoor of the Pterosaur A Note on the Brontopodus Ichnofacies, and Other Carbonate Ichnofacies The First Ankylosaur Tracks 8. The Age of Iguanodon: Early Cretaceous Archosaurs in the Air (Pterosaurian Giants) Europe's Early Birds The Age of Iguanodon Iguanodon and Conan Doyle's Lost World La Rioja Theropod Tracks Sauropod Tracks Ornithopod Tracks More Spoor of the Pterosaur Farther Along the Trail of the Elusive Ankylosaur Dalmatian Dinosaurs Arctic Dinosaurs 9. The End of the Dinosaur Trail: Upper Cretaceous The Battle of Carenque More Dalmatian Dinosaurs The Last of the Brontosaurs: Tracking Titanosaurs in the High Pyrenees The Last European Dinosaurs 10. New Horizons The Age of Mammals and Birds The Quiet Dawn: Paleocene-Eocene Oligocene Act I: Tracking Ronzotherium, an Early Rhino Oligocene Act II. An Abundance of Waterfowl A Miocene Menagerie Tracking Ancestors of the Cat: Miocene of Spain Pliocene Interlude Pleistocene: Ice Age Trackmakers Subterranean Tracking: Hominid Ichnology Cave Art to Forensics: The Signature of Modern Humanity