Martin Lockley Libri

For all dinosaur enthusiasts, rockhounds, and tourists, this is the definitive guidebook to the paleontological treasure trove of fossil footprints in the western United States. Concentrating on the rich fossil life of the Colorado Plateau Region--including parts of Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico--Martin Lockley and Adrian P. Hunt tell the story behind a track record that extends back some 300 million years. Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of the Western United States takes readers on a fascinating journey through America's ancient past. The authors explain, in language the nonscientist will appreciate, the fossil track record from the Paleozoic Era through our modern Cenozoic Era. Specialists will appreciate the annotated references and detailed descriptions of important specimens. A series of lifelike illustrations by artist Paul Koroshetz depicts dinosaurs in their natural habitat, and an appendix lists museums and other major repositories of tracks and replicas, giving details on tracksites open to the public. Dinosaur Tracks is the perfect guidebook for explorations of the exciting prehistory of the American West.

The long and distinguished tradition of tracking dinosaurs and other extinct animals in Europe dates back to the 1830s. Yet this venerable tradition of scientific activity cannot compare in magnitude and scope with the unprecedented spate of discovery and documentation of the last few years. Now, following on the heels of his Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of the Western United States, Martin Lockley teams up with Christian Meyer to present an up to date synthesis of the recent findings in the field of European fossil footprints. Drawing extensively on their own research results from studies in Britain, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, and elsewhere, the authors create a dynamic picture of mammal, reptile, bird, and amphibian "track-makers" throughout more than 300 million years of vertebrate evolution, placed in the context of Europe's changing ancient environments.Beginning with an introduction to tracking and a history of the European tracking tradition, Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of Europe then charts a broad path of evolutionary proliferation from the proto-dinosaurs of the Early Triassic period to the dinosaurs' decline and disappearance in the Upper Cretaceous. The survey continues into the age of mammals and birds, ending with the cave art of our Paleolithic ancestors.