A Review of the Tetrapod Track Record in China, with Special Reference to Type Ichnospecies： Implications for Ichnotaxonomy and Paleobiology

• Published in: Acta geologica Sinica (Beijing) Vol. 87; no. 1; pp. 1 - 20
• Main Authors: LOCKLEY, Martin G., Jianjun, LI, Rihui, LI, MATSUKAWA, Masaki, HARRIS, Jerald D., Lida, XING
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2013; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc; University of Colorado Denver, Dinosaur Tracks Research Group, P.O.Box 173364, Campus Box 172,Denver, CO 80217-3364, USA%Beijing Museum of Natural History Museum, 126 Tianqiao, South Street, Beijing 100050, China%Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology, China Geological Survey, 62 Fuzhou Road, Qingdao 266071, China%Department of Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Gakugei University, Koganei, Tokyo, 184-8501, Japan%Department of Physical Sciences, Dixie State College, 225 South 700 East, St.George, Utah 84770%Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, 11455 Saskatchewan Drive, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada
• Edition: English ed.
• Subjects: birds; China; Cretaceous; Dinosaurs; Endemism; ichnotaxonomy; Jurassic; Mesozoic; theropods; Triassic; 中国; 动物类型; 四足动物; 特有现象; 生物学意义; 白垩纪; 脊椎动物; 遗迹; Dinosaurs; Mesozoic; birds; China; ichnotaxonomy; theropods

＂Splitting＂ and ＂lumping＂ are perpetual problems in vertebrate, especially dinosaur, ichnotaxonomy. Chinese dinosaur ichnotaxonomy, which began in 1940, provides a series of interesting case studies, highlighting the dual problems of historical and dubious ichnotaxonomy. Chinese Mesozoic tetrapod tr...