Smallest known raptor tracks suggest microraptorine activity in lakeshore setting.

Abstract:

:Ongoing studies of a multiple track-bearing horizons from massive excavations in the Jinju Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of South Korea have yielded a remarkable diversity of avian, non-avian dinosaur, pterosaur, crocodilian and mammal tracks, many very small and well preserved. Here we report diminutive, didactyl tracks (~1.0 cm long) assigned to a new dromaeosaurid ichnogenus Dromaeosauriformipes, which resembles the larger, but still quite small, ichnogenus Dromaeosauripus, also from the same formation only 30 km away. These diminutive tracks are consistent with the foot size of smaller dromaeosaurid taxa like Early Cretaceous Microraptor from China, and may represent diminutive species or juveniles of larger species. The association of tracks with lakeshore sediments is consistent with the evidence that Microraptor was a fish eater. Two trackways and isolated tracks indicate variable trackmaker gaits and speeds. If oviparous, as assumed for most non-avian dinosaur neonates, the trackmakers must have hatched from tiny eggs. Previous studies of the Korean Cretaceous indicate the presence of other diminutive (~1.0 cm long) theropod tracks (Minisauripus). Such occurrences strongly suggest that small tracks attributed to juveniles, or very small tetrapod species, are more common than previously supposed especially where suitable preservation conditions prevailed.

journal_name

Sci Rep

journal_title

Scientific reports

authors

Kim KS,Lim JD,Lockley MG,Xing L,Kim DH,Piñuela L,Romilio A,Yoo JS,Kim JH,Ahn J

doi

10.1038/s41598-018-35289-4

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-11-15 00:00:00

pages

16908

issue

1

issn

2045-2322

pii

10.1038/s41598-018-35289-4

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8

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