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The Mesozoic Vertebrate Radiation in Terrestrial Settings

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The Trace-Fossil Record of Major Evolutionary Events

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In the last three decades vertebrate ichnology went through a renaissance due the discovery of new tracksites and the application of rigorous analytic methods (e.g., synapomorphy analyses). This finally allowed full hypothesis testing and a better integration of vertebrate ichnology in paleobiologic, paleoecologic and paleobiogeographic studies. In this chapter we provide a review of recent advances in vertebrate ichnology, focusing on Mesozoic terrestrial reptiles.

By documenting evolutionary patterns, especially regarding locomotor mechanics and behavior, the track record provides clues often undocumented by the skeletal record. Given the abundance and distribution of tracks, the ichnologic record can also be particularly informative when considering timing of appearance of clades, even if only at high taxonomic levels. Ichnologic studies are, however, affected by several biases, such as unequal probability of preservation in different depositional environments, preservational factors, limb–substrate interactions, and convergence in autopodia morphology. In order to contribute to a better understanding of the evolutionary history of life, and its interplay with the changing Earth, ichnologic data need to be integrated with the body fossil record in order to provide a “total-evidence” approach. Only this way can palaeichnology be integrated in evolutionary biology and contribute to macroevolutionary studies finally taking place at the “high table” of paleobiology.

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Our sincere thanks to the editors M.G. Mángano and L.A. Buatois for the invitation to contribute to this volume and for the enthusiastic support during the realization of the chapter. We thank J.D. Harris for providing bibliographic references. P. Currie and C. Meyer are thanked for their constructive reviews. This study was supported by MUSE, Museo delle Scienze, Trento. M.B., F.M.P. and M.A. were supported also by the Promotion of Educational Policies, University and Research Department of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano-South Tyrol as part of the project “The Permian–Triassic ecological crisis in the Dolomites: extinction and recovery dynamics in Terrestrial Ecosystems” and partly as part of the project “The end-Permian mass extinction in the Southern and Eastern Alps: extinction rates vs taphonomic biases in different depositional environments” financed by the Euregio Science Fund (call 2014, IPN16) of the Europaregion Euregio. L.P and J.C.G.-R. were supported by Project CGL2012-33281 of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.

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  1. Department of Geology and Palaeontology, MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza 3, 38122, Trento, Italy

    Massimo Bernardi, Fabio Massimo Petti & Marco Avanzini

  2. School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Queen’s Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK

    Massimo Bernardi

  3. PaleoFactory, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Fabio Massimo Petti

  4. Museo del Jurásico de Asturias [MUJA], Colunga, Asturias, España

    Laura Piñuela & José Carlos García-Ramos

  5. Dinosaur Tracks Research Group, University of Colorado Denver, 173364, Denver, CO, 80217-3364, USA

    Martin G. Lockley

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Bernardi, M., Petti, F.M., Piñuela, L., García-Ramos, J.C., Avanzini, M., Lockley, M.G. (2016). The Mesozoic Vertebrate Radiation in Terrestrial Settings. In: Mángano, M., Buatois, L. (eds) The Trace-Fossil Record of Major Evolutionary Events. Topics in Geobiology, vol 40. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9597-5_3

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