Dinosaur swim tracks from the Lower Cretaceous of La Rioja, Spain: an ichnological approach to non-common behaviours

The reconstruction of behavioural patterns performed by non-avian dinosaurs is an important task of palaeontology in order to globally understand how these animals interacted with their environment. Their relation with aquatic lifestyles has always been an intriguing question that has been extensive...

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Autores: Navarro-Lorbés, P., Díaz Martínez, Ignacio|||0000-0001-5301-8384, Valle-Melón, J.M., Rodríguez-Miranda, Á., Moratalla, J.J., Ferrer-Ventura, M., San Juan-Palacios, R., Torices, A.
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
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Palavra-chave:Lower Cretaceous
Paleoichnology
Non-avian dinosaurs behaviour
Swimming dinosaurs
Cameros basin
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spelling Dinosaur swim tracks from the Lower Cretaceous of La Rioja, Spain: an ichnological approach to non-common behavioursNavarro-Lorbés, P.Díaz Martínez, Ignacio|||0000-0001-5301-8384Valle-Melón, J.M.Rodríguez-Miranda, Á.Moratalla, J.J.Ferrer-Ventura, M.San Juan-Palacios, R.Torices, A.Lower CretaceousPaleoichnologyNon-avian dinosaurs behaviourSwimming dinosaursCameros basinThe reconstruction of behavioural patterns performed by non-avian dinosaurs is an important task of palaeontology in order to globally understand how these animals interacted with their environment. Their relation with aquatic lifestyles has always been an intriguing question that has been extensively studied during the last decades, especially focused on some specific groups. The present work describes a new tracksite with 27 swimming tracks located in a fluvial setting from the Lower Cretaceous Urbion Group of La Rioja (Spain). They are preserved as natural casts with sizes between 8.5 and 29.2 cm and a predominant orientation. The tracks have been classified into 6 different morphotypes according to their morphology, and grouped into 5 different categories depending on the different pes-substrate interactions, following the proposal of Romilio et al. (2013). Some tracks were produced while the animal was moving in partial or complete buoyancy, and displacement was conducted by water and sediment impulsion, not just a mere paddling. Other tracks could be impressed in a bottom-walked, when the trackmaker touched the digit tips on the ground vertically or sub-vertically. This new tracksite confirms the capabilities of some groups of non-avian dinosaurs to interact with shallow water environments where they could print their pedes as they moved, either in complete buoyancy or during a displacement with some vertical component in the water column. It also contributes to the better understanding of swimming track morphologies as especially dependent on pes-sediment interaction and environment more than differences in pes configuration itself, causing the high variability of swimming footprints even when they belong to the same trackway. The classification of swimming tracks and footprints into categories dependent on the pes-substrate interaction could be a good guiding principle to avoid problematics about ichnotaxonomical definition.P.N.-L. is supported by a TALENTO Ph.D grant from Universidad de La Rioja (E-26-2017-0029977); R.S.J.-P is supported by a Ph.D grant from Universidad de la Rioja (E-26-2021-0104021); A.T. is supported by a TALENTO Posdoctoral grant from Consejeria de Educacion y Cultura (Gobierno de La Rioja). Research funded by Instituto de Estudios Riojanos by "Fotogrametría y estudio de un nuevo yacimiento de huellas de dinosaurios en Laguna de Cameros, La Rioja" (Project OTCA210527); La Rioja Government, Spain by "Convenio para la financiación de actividades de la Catedra Extraordinaria de Patrimonio Paleontologico" in the Universidad de La Rioja, the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain (project CGL2017-85038-P) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). ID-M funded by Unión Europea-NextGenerationEU "Requalification of Spanish university system for 2021–2022" in the UPV-EHU and supported by a Ramón y Cajal fellowship (RYC-2022) and by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain. This study is partially part of the Project PID-2019-105546GB-I00 of the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.ElsevierUniversidad de Cantabria20232023-07-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501NAhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_be7fb7dd8ff6fe43info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://hdl.handle.net/10902/32223Cretaceous Research, 2023, 147, 105516reponame:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabriainstname:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/322232026-06-02T12:39:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Dinosaur swim tracks from the Lower Cretaceous of La Rioja, Spain: an ichnological approach to non-common behaviours
title Dinosaur swim tracks from the Lower Cretaceous of La Rioja, Spain: an ichnological approach to non-common behaviours
spellingShingle Dinosaur swim tracks from the Lower Cretaceous of La Rioja, Spain: an ichnological approach to non-common behaviours
Navarro-Lorbés, P.
Lower Cretaceous
Paleoichnology
Non-avian dinosaurs behaviour
Swimming dinosaurs
Cameros basin
title_short Dinosaur swim tracks from the Lower Cretaceous of La Rioja, Spain: an ichnological approach to non-common behaviours
title_full Dinosaur swim tracks from the Lower Cretaceous of La Rioja, Spain: an ichnological approach to non-common behaviours
title_fullStr Dinosaur swim tracks from the Lower Cretaceous of La Rioja, Spain: an ichnological approach to non-common behaviours
title_full_unstemmed Dinosaur swim tracks from the Lower Cretaceous of La Rioja, Spain: an ichnological approach to non-common behaviours
title_sort Dinosaur swim tracks from the Lower Cretaceous of La Rioja, Spain: an ichnological approach to non-common behaviours
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Navarro-Lorbés, P.
Díaz Martínez, Ignacio|||0000-0001-5301-8384
Valle-Melón, J.M.
Rodríguez-Miranda, Á.
Moratalla, J.J.
Ferrer-Ventura, M.
San Juan-Palacios, R.
Torices, A.
author Navarro-Lorbés, P.
author_facet Navarro-Lorbés, P.
Díaz Martínez, Ignacio|||0000-0001-5301-8384
Valle-Melón, J.M.
Rodríguez-Miranda, Á.
Moratalla, J.J.
Ferrer-Ventura, M.
San Juan-Palacios, R.
Torices, A.
author_role author
author2 Díaz Martínez, Ignacio|||0000-0001-5301-8384
Valle-Melón, J.M.
Rodríguez-Miranda, Á.
Moratalla, J.J.
Ferrer-Ventura, M.
San Juan-Palacios, R.
Torices, A.
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidad de Cantabria
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Lower Cretaceous
Paleoichnology
Non-avian dinosaurs behaviour
Swimming dinosaurs
Cameros basin
topic Lower Cretaceous
Paleoichnology
Non-avian dinosaurs behaviour
Swimming dinosaurs
Cameros basin
description The reconstruction of behavioural patterns performed by non-avian dinosaurs is an important task of palaeontology in order to globally understand how these animals interacted with their environment. Their relation with aquatic lifestyles has always been an intriguing question that has been extensively studied during the last decades, especially focused on some specific groups. The present work describes a new tracksite with 27 swimming tracks located in a fluvial setting from the Lower Cretaceous Urbion Group of La Rioja (Spain). They are preserved as natural casts with sizes between 8.5 and 29.2 cm and a predominant orientation. The tracks have been classified into 6 different morphotypes according to their morphology, and grouped into 5 different categories depending on the different pes-substrate interactions, following the proposal of Romilio et al. (2013). Some tracks were produced while the animal was moving in partial or complete buoyancy, and displacement was conducted by water and sediment impulsion, not just a mere paddling. Other tracks could be impressed in a bottom-walked, when the trackmaker touched the digit tips on the ground vertically or sub-vertically. This new tracksite confirms the capabilities of some groups of non-avian dinosaurs to interact with shallow water environments where they could print their pedes as they moved, either in complete buoyancy or during a displacement with some vertical component in the water column. It also contributes to the better understanding of swimming track morphologies as especially dependent on pes-sediment interaction and environment more than differences in pes configuration itself, causing the high variability of swimming footprints even when they belong to the same trackway. The classification of swimming tracks and footprints into categories dependent on the pes-substrate interaction could be a good guiding principle to avoid problematics about ichnotaxonomical definition.
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