TY  - SER
AU  - Doyle, Peter 
AU  - Jason L. Wood
TI  - The shorebird ichnofacies : An example from the miocene of southern Spain
KW  - Shorebird ichnofacies - Southern Spain
KW  - Miocene - Southern Spain
KW  - Biostratigraphy - Southern Spain
KW  - Functional morphology - Ichnofacies - Southern Spain
N2  - Abstract
The Late Miocene Sorbas Member of the Sorbas Basin, Almería Province, southeast Spain contains an extensive avian ichnofauna preserved in lagoonal marls. Three distinctive avian ichnotaxa can be identified: Antarctichnus fuenzalidae Covacevich and Lamperein, 1970; Iranipeda millumi n. ichnosp.; and Roepichnus grahami n. ichnogen, n. ichnosp. In common with many other Cenozoic avian ichnofaunas, these traces are associated with shorebirds, including plovers, storks, ducks and/or gulls, respectively. Associated mammalian tracks include possible cat and artiodactyl footprints. The avian tracks are abundant and show a range of behavioural aspects in common with other recorded examples of Cretaceous–Recent shorebird tracks. These include both solitary and group activities consistent with their postulated avian tracemakers
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