Dinosaur tracks : the next steps / edited by Peter L. Falkingham, Daniel Marty, and Annette Richter.

"This book was developed from a dinosaur track symposium that was organized and held in April 2011 in Obernkirchen, Germany, on behalf of the Niedersachsisches Landesmuseum Hannover (Lower Saxony State Museum Hannover)."-- Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 09, 2016).

Cover -- Dinosaur Tracks -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Approaches and Techniques for Studying Dinosaur Tracks -- 1 Experimental and Comparative Ichnology -- 2 Close-Range Photogrammetry for 3-D Ichnology: The Basics of Photogrammetric Ichnology -- 3 The Early Cretaceous Dinosaur Trackways in Münchehagen (Lower Saxony, Germany): 3-D Photogrammetry as Basis for Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Shape Variation and Evaluation of Material Loss during Excavation -- 4 Applying Objective Methods to Subjective Track Outlines -- 5 Beyond Surfaces: A Particle-Based Perspective on Track Formation -- 6 A Numerical Scale for Quantifying the Quality of Preservation of Vertebrate Tracks -- 7 Evaluating the Dinosaur Track Record: An Integrative Approach to Understanding the Regional and Global Distribution, Scientific Importance, Preservation, and Management of Tracksites -- Part 2. Paleobiology and Evolution from Tracks -- 8 Iberian Sauropod Tracks through Time: Variations in Sauropod Manus and Pes Morphologies -- 9 The Flexion of Sauropod Pedal Unguals and Testing the Substrate Grip Hypothesis Using the Trackway Fossil Record -- 10 Dinosaur Swim Track Assemblages: Characteristics, Contexts, and Ichnofacies Implications -- 11 Two-Toed Tracks through Time: On the Trail of "Raptors" and Their Allies -- 12 Diversity, Ontogeny, or Both? A Morphometric Approach to Iguanodontian Ornithopod (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) Track Assemblages from the Berriasian (Lower Cretaceous) of Northwestern Germany -- 13 Uncertainty and Ambiguity in the Interpretation of Sauropod Trackways -- 14 Dinosaur Tracks as "Four-Dimensional Phenomena" Reveal How Different Species Moved -- Part 3. Ichnotaxonomy and Trackmaker Identifi cation.

15 Analyzing and Resolving Cretaceous Avian Ichnotaxonomy Using Multivariate Statistical Analyses: Approaches and Results -- 16 Elusive Ornithischian Tracks in the Famous Berriasian (Lower Cretaceous) "Chicken Yard" Tracksite of Northern Germany: Quantitative Differentiation between Small Tridactyl Trackmakers -- Part 4. Depositional Environments and Their Infl uence on the Track Record -- 17 Too Many Tracks: Preliminary Description and Interpretation of the Diverse and Heavily Dinoturbated Early Cretaceous "Chicken Yard" Ichnoassemblage (Obernkirchen Tracksite, Northern Germany) -- 18 Dinosaur Tracks in Eolian Strata: New Insights into Track Formation, Walking Kinetics, and Trackmaker Behavior -- 19 Analysis of Desiccation Crack Patterns for Quantitative Interpretation of Fossil Tracks -- 20 A Review of the Dinosaur Track Record from Jurassic and Cretaceous Shallow Marine Carbonate Depositional Environments -- Paleoenvironment Reconstructions of Vertebrate Tracksites in the Obernkirchen Sandstone, Lower Cretaceous of Northwest Germany -- Dinosaur Track Terminology: A Glossary of Terms -- Index -- List of Contributors.