A remarkable discovery of dinosaur footprints dating back nearly 166 million years has unearthed the largest dinosaur trackway ever found in Britain. Located in a former quarry, the site reveals tracks believed to have been made by both herbivorous and carnivorous dinosaurs.
I thought, it’s just an abnormality in the ground,” he said. “But then it got to another, three metres along, and it was hump again, and then it went another three metres, hump again.” What Johnson had discovered was part of an enormous dinosaur trackway dating to nearly 166m years ago, when the quarry was a warm, shallow lagoon crisscrossed by the huge creatures.
Researchers have now unearthed about 200 large footprints at the site, making this the biggest dinosaur trackway ever found in Britain. The tracks are thought to have been made by two types of dinosaur: the herbivorous cetiosaurus, a sauropod that walked on four legs, and the smaller carnivorous megalosaurus. So far, five separate trackways have been found stretching up to 150 metres in length, and experts from the universities of Oxford and Birmingham believe they could extend much further as only part of the quarry has been excavated. “This is one of the most impressive track sites I’ve ever seen, in terms of scale, in terms of size of the tracks,” Prof Kirsty Edgar, a micropalaeontologist from the University of Birmingham, told. “You can step back in time and get an idea of what it would have been like, these massive creatures just roaming around, going about their own business.”From left: Kirsty Edgar, Richard Butler, Duncan Murdock, Alice Roberts and Emma Nicholls with dinosaur footprints found at the quarry.After Johnson’s initial discovery, a team of more than 100 scientists, students and volunteers joined an excavation of the site last summer, which will feature on the BBC seriesnext week. As well as making plaster casts of the prints, the project recorded 20,000 photographs and built detailed 3D models of the site using aerial drones. The trackways connect to discoveries made in the area in 1997, where limestone quarrying revealed more than 40 sets of footprint
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