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Dinosaur footprints & trackways of La Rioja / Félix Pérez Lorente.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pérez Lorente, Félix, author.
- Series:
- Life of the past.
- Life of the Past
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Footprints, Fossil--Spain--La Rioja.
- Footprints, Fossil.
- Dinosaur tracks--Spain--La Rioja.
- Dinosaur tracks.
- Dinosaurs--Spain--La Rioja.
- Dinosaurs.
- Paleontology--Spain--La Rioja.
- Paleontology.
- La Rioja (Spain).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (374 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- During the Early Cretaceous, lakes, meandering streams, and flood plains covered the region where the current foothills of Rioja now exist. Today the area is known for its wine and for the dozens of sites where footprints and trackways of dinosaurs, amphibians, and even pterosaurs can be seen. The dinosaurs that lived here 120 million years ago left their footsteps imprinted in the mud and moist soil. Now fossilized in rock, they have turned Rioja into one of the most valuable dinosaur footprint sites in all of Europe. Félix Pérez-Lorente and his colleagues have published extensively on the re
- Contents:
- La Rioja footprints
- Ichnology
- The tracksites
- Conservation of the tracksites
- Summary.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780253015419
- 0253015413
- OCLC:
- 911179734
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