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Cretaceous ‘Skenes Creek’ dinosaur tracksite and tracks at Browns Creek in Australia (free pdf)
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Ben Creisler
May 7, 2025, 11:48:57 AMMay 7
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Anthony Romilio, Tim Godfrey, Mike Cleeland, Ruairidh J. Duncan, Simona Grippi, Anthony Martin, Helmut Tracksdorf & Tim Wagstaff (2025)
Re-investigation of the mid-Cretaceous ‘Skenes Creek’ dinosaur tracksite and discovery of distinct tracks at Browns Creek within the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian–Albian) Eumeralla Formation, Victoria, Australia
Historical Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2501784
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2501784
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/08912963.2025.2501784
The Lower Cretaceous (Aptian – Albian) Eumeralla Formation in Victoria’s Otway Basin offers a window into the dinosaur diversity at higher latitudes of the southern hemisphere during the initial stages of Australia’s separation from Antarctica. This study re-evaluates Browns Creek dinosaur footprints originally identified as being from the ‘Skenes Creek’ but were extracted for museum collection in 1989. We have digitally reconstructed their trackway positions, providing new insights into the locomotive behaviour of the small-bodied dinosaur that traversed the fluvial palaeo-landscape. Additionally, we describe 13 previously unrecorded dinosaurian pedal impressions within a single bedding plane located approximately 220 metres from the original tracksite. These tracks range from small to large tridactyl impressions, attributable to ornithopodan and theropodan trackmakers. As all footprints described in this study are situated in close proximity to Browns Creek, we recommend refraining from attributing them to the neighbouring ‘Skenes Creek’ locality, reserving that designation for the purported footprint discovery reported there in 1978.
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Free pdf:
Anthony Romilio, Tim Godfrey, Mike Cleeland, Ruairidh J. Duncan, Simona Grippi, Anthony Martin, Helmut Tracksdorf & Tim Wagstaff (2025)
Re-investigation of the mid-Cretaceous ‘Skenes Creek’ dinosaur tracksite and discovery of distinct tracks at Browns Creek within the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian–Albian) Eumeralla Formation, Victoria, Australia
Historical Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2501784
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2501784
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/08912963.2025.2501784
The Lower Cretaceous (Aptian – Albian) Eumeralla Formation in Victoria’s Otway Basin offers a window into the dinosaur diversity at higher latitudes of the southern hemisphere during the initial stages of Australia’s separation from Antarctica. This study re-evaluates Browns Creek dinosaur footprints originally identified as being from the ‘Skenes Creek’ but were extracted for museum collection in 1989. We have digitally reconstructed their trackway positions, providing new insights into the locomotive behaviour of the small-bodied dinosaur that traversed the fluvial palaeo-landscape. Additionally, we describe 13 previously unrecorded dinosaurian pedal impressions within a single bedding plane located approximately 220 metres from the original tracksite. These tracks range from small to large tridactyl impressions, attributable to ornithopodan and theropodan trackmakers. As all footprints described in this study are situated in close proximity to Browns Creek, we recommend refraining from attributing them to the neighbouring ‘Skenes Creek’ locality, reserving that designation for the purported footprint discovery reported there in 1978.
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