A NEW TYPE OF DINOSAUR TRACKS FROM LOWER CRETACEOUS OF CHABU, OTOG QI, INNER MONGOLIA

Thousands of footprints have been documented in 8 localities since the first scientific discovery of the dinosaur footprints in the Lower Cretaceous of Chabu(Qab) district in Otog Qi, Ordos city, Inner Mongolia in 1981(Gao Shang-yu et al.,1981). The footprints are widely distributed on more than 500 square kilometers in Chabu area, including theropod, sauropod and bird footprints as well. We did detailed survey on the Chabu area in 2002 and 2004 and found many new localities of dinosaur and bird fooprints, among which a new type of theropod dinosaur footprints Chapus lockleyi ichnogen. et ichnosp. nov has been recognized.

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Q915.2 P534.53