Tag: trackway
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‘Dinosaur highway’ dating back 166 million years discovered in England
PBS News has a story about the discovery of a special dinosaur trackway in England. While digging up clay in a imestone quarry in southern England, a worker found nearly 200 dinosaur tracks that date to the Jurassic Period about 166 million years ago. There are four sets of sauropod tracks, thought to be Cetiosaurus…
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You Can Visit the World’s Largest Continuous Dinosaur Trackway, Now on Protected Public Land
Smithsonian Magazine has an article about a dinosaur trackway in Colorado. The track dates to about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period. 134 consecutive footprints trace out a sauropod dinosaur walking for a bit and then changing direction in a loop. The West Gold Hill Dinosaur Track site dates is located just west of…
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”We Were Freaking Out” – Scientists Explore Dinosaur Coliseum
SciTechDaily has a story about the discovery of extensive dinosaur trackways in Alaska. The trackways were found in Denali National Park and Preserve by researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. It is the largest documented single dinosaur track site in Alaska. The area of the tracks spans the size of one and a half…
