Researchers have discovered 200 large dinosaur footprints at Dewars Farm quarry in Oxfordshire, believed to be the largest site of its kind in the UK. The footprints, some over 150 meters long, are thought to belong to two types of dinosaurs: the herbivorous Cetiosauruses and the carnivorous Megalosaurus.
Cetiosauruses and a megalosaurus are thought to have left prints at what is said to be largest site of its kind in UKResearchers have unearthed 200 large dinosaur footprints – said to be the biggest site of its kind in the UK – from two types of dinosaurs, thought to be the herbivorous cetiosaurus and the carnivorous megalosaurus. The longest trackways are 150 metres in length, and only part of the quarry has been excavated.
In 1997, a trackway of megalosaurus footprints was discovered at Ardley quarry in Oxfordshire. Recollections of that discovery led Gary Johnson, a worker at Dewars Farm quarry, to consider whether bumps and dips he had found in the limestone floor there could be dinosaur footprints. Over the summer a team of more than 100 scientists, students and volunteers joined an excavation at the site, which will feature on the TV series Digging for Britain next week.
The latter was “almost like a caricature of a dinosaur footprint”, Emma Nicholls, a vertebrate palaeontologist from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, told the BBC. “It’s what we call a tridactyl print. It’s got these three toes that are very, very, clear in the print. The whole animal would have been 6-9 metres in length. They were the largest predatory dinosaurs that we know of in the Jurassic period in Britain.
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