EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Siguiendo las Huellas de los Dinosaurios shows us that through the fossile footprints we can get to know how dinosaurs and their habitats were in the past. Starting from their footprints, we know which their locomotive means, their behavior, their ecology and their impact in the environment were. The book includes a detailed guide on the geographical situation of the footprints found and reviews about the popular myths and misconceptions about them. Did they really swim? Did they travel in structured herds? These and other questions are described and discussed in an easily accessible style.

(Extracted from the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contenido.

-Prefacio. Por José Luis Sanz.

-Prólogo a la Edición Española.

-Prólogo.

-Introducción.

-1. Las Huellas: Cómo, Dónde y Cuándo.

-2. El Significado de las Huellas.

-3. ¿Cómo se Preserva una Huella?

-4. Hallazgo y Documentación.

-5. Clasificación: una Guía de Campo para las Huellas de Dinosaurios.

-6. Comportamiento Individual.

-7. Comportamiento Social.

-8. Ecología del Pasado.

-9. Evolución.

-10. Icnitas de Dinosaurios y Ambientes del Pasado.

-11. Icnitas a Través del Tiempo: la Ciencia de la Paleoicnoestratigrafía.

-12. Lo Pisado por sus Pies.

-13. Megayacimientos: una Nueva Era en el Estudio de las Icnitas.

-14. Mitos y Malentendidos.

-15. Los Rastreadores de Dinosaurios.

-16. Epílogo: Camino del Siglo XXI.

-Apéndice A. Dónde Visitar Yacimientos de Huellas.

-Apéndice B. Glosario.

-Indice.

OUR REVIEW

At a time when the people are widely influenced by television, cinema and the other mass media, dinosaurs have become an issue of a general interest. Numerous divulgative works have been published on these prehistoric animals, among which, nevertheless, we cannot completely place the book we are reviewing here. Actually, the text by Lockley, a professor of Geology at Colorado (Denver, USA), goes somewhat beyond a simple explanation, to enter a more scientific department.

The footprints left by the dinosaurs, apart from the finds of bones and other similar elements, are some of the main ways to study their behavior and characteristics. Since anyone can find this kind of footprints, either conscientiously or in an unexpected manner, the author explains us everything we need to know about them, the considerable amount of information that can be gathered from studying them and the steps we must take before such an important discovery as this is. The book, extensively illustrated and aimed at all kinds of readers, is a true jewel that all those readers interested in dinosaurs will no doubt appreciate.