First dinosaur tracks from the Lower Cretaceous of the Western High Atlas (Morocco)

• Autores: Moussa Masrour, Félix Pérez Lorente, Serge Ferry, Nourrisaid Içame, Danièle Grosheny
• Localización: Geogaceta, ISSN 0213-683X, Nº. 53, 2013, págs. 33-36
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Eight vertebrate trackways were found near the Imi-n-Tanout village, in the proximity of the two Marrakesh-Agadir roads: three theropod, two sauropods trackways; and three of an unknown bipedal trackmaker. The outcrop is the first Early Cretaceous dinosaur tracksite found in Morocco and the second (Barremian-early Aptian) site of Africa. This preliminary report provides morphometric and biomorphic descriptions of the footprints and trackways, their classification, and an interpretation on the formation of the two �pes-only� sauropod trackways.