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ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA
卷 53, 期 3, 页码 405-412出版社
INST PALEOBIOLOGII PAN
DOI: 10.4202/app.2008.0304
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crocodilia; Pteraichnus; trackway; gait; posture; kinematics; neoichnology
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- 21st century COE Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tokyo
The Pteraichnus trackmaker is usually hypothesized to be either a pterosaur or a crocodilian. Though the latter interpretation is recently not widely accepted, more experimental work on trackways of extant crocodilians is necessary to settle the debate. Here, the trackways of three species of modern crocodiles (Paleosuchus trigonatus, Crocodylus porosus, and Tomistoma schlegelii) in all major gaits and postures, namely sprawling, walking and running, were compared with Pteraichnus trackways. In all experimentally generated crocodilian trackways pentadactyl manus tracks are recognized, the external width between pes tracks is wider than the corresponding internal width between manus tracks, and tail marks are usually present. All crocodilian trackways collected in the present study revealed significant differences from Pteraichnus, which strongly suggests a non-crocodilian origin of Pteraichnus.
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