Steve Salisbury/Queensland University/James Cook Universityĭinosaurs plodded through the region some 130 million years ago, leaving their heavy tracks in the wet sands of a river delta.
The print was left by a sauropod, a long-necked, four-legged herbivore.īelieved to be the largest dinosaur footprint yet found, this sauropod print is over 5 feet long. One footprint spanned five feet and nine inches in length, making it the largest dinosaur track ever discovered, according to CNN’s Joshua Berlinger. The tracks also provide the only known evidence of stegosaurs in Australia, Salisbury notes. “There were five different types of predatory dinosaur tracks, at least six types of tracks from long-necked herbivorous sauropods, four types of tracks from two-legged herbivorous ornithopods, and six types of tracks from armoured dinosaurs,” lead researcher Steven Salisbury says in a statement. They recently published their findings in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The research team, which was comprised of palaeontologists from the University of Queensland and James Cook University, recorded twenty-one types of fossil footprints stamped into the sandstones of the Dampier Peninsula. As Jonathan Amos reports for the BBC, palaeontologists found a diverse collection of dinosaur footprints in the area-among them the largest dinosaur footprint known to science. A group of scientists say they have discovered “Australia’s Jurassic Park” along the rocky shores of Kimberly, a remote region in Western Australia.
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