Upper Cretaceous dinosaur footprints from Grant County, New Mexico
— Spencer G. Lucas and Charles A. Ferguson
Abstract:
We describe two dinosaur trackways from the lower part of the Mancos Formation (Upper Cretaceous, upper Cenomanian) near Silver City in Grant County, southwestern New Mexico. These trackways consist of deeply-impressed footprints that include large imprints of the posterior metatarsals, which suggests walking in a wet substrate. They were made by relatively small theropod dinosaurs (estimated hip heights of 1-1.6 m). These are the only Late Cretaceous dinosaur tracks known from southwestern New Mexico.
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- Lucas, Spencer G.; Ferguson, Charles A., 2012, Upper Cretaceous dinosaur footprints from Grant County, New Mexico, in: Geology of the Warm Springs region, Lucas, Spencer G.; McLemore, Virginia T.; Lueth, Virgil W.; Spielmann, Justin A.; Krainer, Karl, New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook, 63rd Field Conference, pp. 499-502. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-63.499