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unusual facts about dinosaur footprints


Dinosaur Footprints

These tracks were fossilized and largely hidden until many were unearthed by the construction of what is now U.S. Route 5.


Paleontology in Nevada

The Paiute and Ute people of Nevada were aware of dinosaur footprints in addition to their fossil-derived myths about the Si-Teh-Cahs.


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Lagarina Valley

In the locality Lavini di Marco, near Rovereto, are several dinosaur footprints attributed to the genera Camptosaurus and Dilophosaurus.

Michael Wachtler

In 2007, on Piz da Peres in Val Badia, he discovered primitive dinosaur footprints dating back 240 million years ago which he analysed together with Marco Avanzini and Rossana Todesco.

Plaster cast

The original from which the cast is taken may be a sculpture, building, a face, a fossil or other remains such as fresh or fossilised footprints – particularly in palaeontology (a track of dinosaur footprints made in this way can be seen outside the Oxford University Museum of Natural History).

Rocky Hill, Connecticut

Dinosaur State Park, which displays fossilized dinosaur footprints discovered in Rocky Hill in the 1960s