Paik, In Sung , Kim, Hyun Joo , Baek, Seung Gyun , Seo, Young Kyo
2020-12-01 EPISODES 2020 43(卷), 4(期), (1045-1052页)
Multiple subparallel dinosaur trackways closely associated with a solitary theropod trackway occur in the Late Cretaceous deposits at Yugok-dong in Ulsan City, Korea. The trackway-bearing deposits are sheetflood deposits and are well-lithed to preserve the footprints. The paleoenvironment of trackway deposits is interpreted as a lake margin where microbial mats formed under semi-arid paleoclimatic conditions. The unique features of these dinosaur trackways are 1) preservation of transformed skin impressions in every footprint of multiple trackways indicating nearly simultaneous trackway formation, 2) occurrence of multiple trackways representing three kinds of ornithopods, and 3) close association of a theropod trackway with the ornithopod track way. This study reports the another discovery to support the gregarious travelling of ornithopod dinosaurs and solitary hunting of theropods for herbivorous dinosaurs by the occurrence of simultaneously formed multiple trackways of ornithopods and one theropod track way. This tracksite is very exceptional not only in preserving skin impressions in every footprint of six subparallel trackways but also in providing new evidence to support that different kinds of herbivorous dinosaurs moved together in the same direction to form a group. In addition, this tracksite suggests that solitary hunting was also present in non-avian dinosaurs as in modern tigers or leopards.
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