This refers to the dinosaur’s footprints in sedimentary rocks. These footprints are clues for studying the dinosaur’s type, size, limb forms and mode of motion. These fossils can be a single footprint or a series of continuous footprints (called tracks). Some track fossils are even accompanied by clear marks of their foot skin, and this type of mark is rare and precious (Fig. 18).
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(2020). Dinosaur Track Fossil. In: Chen, A., Ng, Y., Zhang, E., Tian, M. (eds) Dictionary of Geotourism. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2538-0_513
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