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As one who studies and follows the behavior of living birds, I was surprised to be visiting a museum and see footprints, identical to the birds I study, in the sedimentary trackways said to be in the Triassic / Jurassic border. Further study into the known fossils reported and recorded by; Hitchcock (1836), King (1844), Gilmore (1926-27), Sternberg (1933), Ellenberger (1970-72) and others in the past leads me to believe that some fossils have most likely been misnamed, misinterpreted, and worse never properly addressed. In this video I also share the fact that I am not alone, and that there are paleontologists who came to this conclusion long before I did. My question would be why hasn't anyone addressed this issue more thoroughly?
I reference a paper by Lockley and others called; "The track record of Mesozoic birds: evidence and implications", here's the Royal Society link to it;
royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
I quote from Martin Lockley and Adrian Hunt's book, "Dinosaur Tracks and other fossil footprints of the Western United States" Available at Amazon here;
www.amazon.com/Dinosaur-Track...
Throughout the video I've referenced many papers both old and new. I tried to have some sort of address or name for each example used so that you could both find it and know it's original source. All were found, mostly in free downloadable PDF form, or online "free books" by searching;
The name of the writer (s) example "Ellenberger 1970"
The name of the paper "The track record of Mesozoic birds: evidence and implications"
These sites, and many others, contain research and peer reviewed papers on this subject;
www.researchgate.net
www.jstor.org
www.semanticscholar.org
Please feel free to leave any questions or comments, but I do have a lot of kids on the site so profanity (some words are auto blocked) and verbal abuse will be removed.