The UK's biggest ever dinosaur trackway site has been discovered in a quarry in Oxfordshire. About 200 huge footprints, which were made 166 million years ago, criss-cross the limestone floor.
The site features five extensive trackways, with the longest continuous track stretching almost 500 feet in length. Four of the five trackways uncovered are believed to have been made by a long ...
Scientists uncovered five trackways in Britain containing dinosaur footprints, with the longest track stretching nearly 500 feet in length. The scientists date the prints to the Middle Jurassic Period ...
Unlike fossil bones, finds like these tell us about ... Dr Murdock says: 'Where trackways cross we get a glimpse of the potential interactions between different species like the carnivorous ...
Dinosaur trackways had previously been discovered ... have theorised that something must have happened to preserve the fossils, such as a storm which deposited sediments on top of the footprints ...
The longest trackways are 150m in length ... "Something must have happened to preserve these in the fossil record," said Prof Richard Butler, a palaeobiologist from the University of Birmingham.
of the Natural History Museum’s Fossil Reptiles Research Group, said trackways are a key way to understand how dinosaurs spent their days. ‘Trackways are important because they preserve ...