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SUBMITTER: Xing L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4758031 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xing Lida L Li Daqing D Falkingham Peter L PL Lockley Martin G MG Benton Michael J MJ Klein Hendrik H Zhang Jianping J Ran Hao H Persons W Scott WS Dai Hui H
Scientific reports 20160218
For more than 70 years unusual sauropod trackways have played a pivotal role in debates about the swimming ability of sauropods. Most claims that sauropods could swim have been based on manus-only or manus-dominated trackways. However none of these incomplete trackways has been entirely convincing, and most have proved to be taphonomic artifacts, either undertracks or the result of differential depth of penetration of manus and pes tracks, but otherwise showed the typical pattern of normal walki ...[more]