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Saturday 8 September 2012

World’s Longest Fossilized Track Records Animal's Death March

World’s Longest Fossilized Track Records Animal's Death March

Stunning Discovery: World’s Longest Fossilized
‘Death Track’, Sci-News, August 30, 212
http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/article00554.html
http://www.sci-news.com/images/2012/08/trackway_hi_res.jpg
http://www.sci-news.com/images/2012/08/image_554_2.jpg

Fossil records 'crab' death march
by Nick Crumpton, BBC News, September 7, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19514333

the paper is:

Lomax, D. R., and C. A. Racay, 2012, A Long
Mortichnial Trackway of Mesolimulus walchi
from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Lithographic
Limestone near Wintershof, German. Ichnos:
An International Journal for Plant and Animal
Traces. vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 175-183.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10420940.2012.702704

Related articles;

Schmid, D. U., R. R. Leinfelder, and G. Schweigert, 2005,
Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironments of the Upper
Jurassic of Southern Germany. Zitteliana. Series B,
Reihe B26, pp. 31-56.
http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11997/1/zitteliana_2005_b26_03.pdf

Koch, R., and C. Weiss, 2005, Field Trip A: Basin-
Platform Transition in Upper Jurassic Lithographic
Limestones and Dolomites of the Northern
Franconian Alb (Germany). Zitteliana. Series B,
Reihe B26, pp. 57-70.
http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11998/1/zitteliana_2005_b26_04.pdf

Roper, M., 2005, Field Trip B: East Bavarian
Plattenkalk – Different Types of Upper
Kimmeridgian to Lower Tithonian Plattenkalk
Deposits and Facies. Zitteliana. Series B,
Reihe B26, pp. 57-70.
http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11999/1/zitteliana_2005_b26_05.pdf

Roper, M., 2005, Field Trip C: Lithographic
Limestones and Plattenkalk Deposits of the
Solnhofen and Mörnsheim Formations near
Eichstätt and Solnhofen. Zitteliana. Series B,
Reihe B26, pp. 71-86.
http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12000/1/zitteliana_2005_b26_06.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.

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