Dr. Martin G. Lockley is an English

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 paleontologist specializing in dinosaur

Dinosaur

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 tracks. He is a Professor of Geology

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 at the University of Colorado at Denver, in the United States

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, and founder and director of the Dinosaur Trackers Research Group.

Biography

Lockley grew up in England, gained a B.Sc. degree in Geology at the Queens University Belfast, and a Ph.D. in Paleontology at Birmingham University. From 1976-1980, he was a researcher at Glasgow University. Since 1980 he has taught geology at the University of Colorado at Denver.

Articles

• "North America's largest dinosaur trackway site: Implications for Morrison Formation paleoecology", (with Karen J. Houk and Nancy K. Price) Geological Society of America
  Geological Society of America
  The Geological Society of America is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences. The society was founded in New York in 1888 by Alexander Winchell, John J. Stevenson, Charles H. Hitchcock, John R. Proctor and Edward Orton and has been headquartered at 3300 Penrose...
  
   Bulletin, October 1986, v.97, n.10, p. 1163-1176.

Books

• The Eternal Trail: a Tracker Looks at Evolution, Perseus Books, 1999.
• Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of Europe, (with Christian A. Meyer) Columbia University Press, 1999.
• Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of the Western United States, (with Adrian P. Hunt) Columbia University Press.
• Tracking Dinosaurs: a New Look at an Ancient World Cambridge Univ. Press.
• Volcanism and Fossil Biotas, (ed., with A. Rice) Geological Society of America
  Geological Society of America
  The Geological Society of America is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences. The society was founded in New York in 1888 by Alexander Winchell, John J. Stevenson, Charles H. Hitchcock, John R. Proctor and Edward Orton and has been headquartered at 3300 Penrose...
  
  , Special Paper 244, 1990.
• Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, (with D. D. Gillette) Cambridge University Press.
• A Guide to Fossil Footprints of the World, Denver: Lockley-Peterson Publication, 2002, ISBN 0-9706091-3-2

External links

• University of Colorado Denver, Martin Lockley
• Joseph B. Verrengia, "Colorado scientists discover tracks of webbed-foot lizard," Deseret News, 19 July 1992.