Impact of Sauropod Dinosaurs on Lagoonal Substrates in the Broome Sandstone (Lower Cretaceous), Western Australia
Figure 2
Cretaceous sauropod tracks and their potential rack-makers.
A, silhouette of Diamantinasaurus, a titanosaur or related sauropod from the Winton Formation (Albian-Cenomanian) of Queensland (after Hocknull et al. [40]); scale bar indicates 1 metre. B, silhouette of Brachiosaurus (after Farlow [19]); undescribed skeletal fragments of a similar sauropod are also known to occur in the Rolling Downs Group of Queensland; scale bar indicates 1 metre. C, right manus-pes couple (at right) and D, part of a trackway (at left), of Brontopodus birdi, a distinctive form of sauropod track from the Trinity Group (Early Cretaceous, Comanchean) of Texas and Arkansas; after Farlow et al. [38]); long suspected to be the track of the contemporary brachiosaur Pleurocoelus, but more recently attributed [58] to Paluxysaurus, a relative of Brachiosaurus; length of the pes print ranges from 40–50 cm to more than 100 cm. E, a sample of sauropod tracks from the Broome Sandstone, Western Australia, to illustrate their diversity in size and shape; three isolated pes prints (at left) and three manus-pes couple (at right) are shown at uniform scale; scale bar (extreme left) is 1 metre.