Tools
Tools
Lomax, DR, Falkingham, PL, Schweigert, G and Jiménez, AP (2017) An 8.5 m long ammonite drag mark from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Lithographic Limestones, Germany. PLoS ONE, 12 (5). ISSN 1932-6203
|
Text
ammonite.pdf - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. Download (17MB) | Preview |
Abstract
Trackways and tracemakers preserved together in the fossil record are rare. However, the co-occurrence of a drag mark, together with the dead animal that produced it, is exceptional. Here, we describe an 8.5 m long ammonite drag mark complete with the preserved ammonite shell (Subplanites rueppellianus) at its end. Previously recorded examples preserve ammonites with drag marks of < 1 m. The specimen was recovered from a quarry near Solnhofen, southern Germany. The drag mark consists of continuous parallel ridges and furrows produced by the ribs of the ammonite shell as it drifted just above the sediment surface, and does not reflect behaviour of the living animal.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | MD Multidisciplinary |
| Subjects: | C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CC Archaeology Q Science > QH Natural history Q Science > QL Zoology |
| Divisions: | Natural Sciences & Psychology (closed 31 Aug 19) |
| Publisher: | Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
| Date Deposited: | 11 May 2017 11:27 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 11:36 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0175426 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/6408 |
 |
View Item |