• El Chocón and Picún Leufú Dinosaur Footprint site In the surroundings of Chocón and Picún Leufú, abundant prints of a great variety of dinosaurs are found. They are invery good condition and make the area a interesting area to visit.To get to the area of footprints, you will have to drive 3 kilometers along Nº 237 National Route departing from the entrance to the dam and going to Piedra del Aguila. You will find to your left, next to Llanquén Neighbourhood an entrance that will take you to a road with footbridges that will let you observe these traces of past.
• Dinosaur State Park. One of the largest dinosaur track sites in North America. Beneath our geodesic dome, you will find an exceptional display of early Jurassic fossil tracks that were made 200 million years ago. Surrounding our Exhibit Center are more than two miles of nature trails and the Dinosaur State Park Arboretum, containing more than 250 species and kinds of conifers, as well as katsuras, ginkgoes, magnolias and other living representatives of plant families which appeared in the Age of Dinosaurs.
• "DINOSAUR TRACKS IN COAL MINES" WEBSITE This site contains a group of texts and text excerpts written by different paleontologists concerning the phenomenon of natural casts of dinosaur tracks found in the roofs of Utah coal mines. The 21 texts were originally compiled and edited by New York artist Allan McCollum to accompany his 1991 sculpture project, Natural Copies From The Coal Mines of Central Utah, as handouts to the gallery visitors. They are available on this website in both html versions and downloadable Portable Document Format (PDF) versions, for anyone who might want to use them for educational purposes.
• Dinosaur Footprints in Coal. Another site discussing the above hadrosaur tracks in coal. This site has a map of the roof (top surface) of a coal seam in an abandoned mine located in late Cretaceous rocks of the Blackhawk Formation, near Price, southeastern Utah. Also a short writeup on the subject.
• The Dinosaur Trackers Research Group, University of Colorado at Denver. The Dinosaur Trackers Research Group was started almost 20 years ago by Professor Martin Lockley, and since that time students and faculty have been studying and collecting dinosaur tracks and other fossil footprints from Colorado and around the world. During that time we have collected more than 1000 fossil footprints, including many original specimens and replicas. This is the largest and most varied research collection of fossil footprints anywhere in the world. Professional trackers who have collaborated with the research group over many years include: Dr. Adrian Hunt, Dr. Christian Meyer, Dr. James Halfpenny, Dr. Masaki Matsukawa, and Dr. Joanna Wright, who currently is employed on the faculty at CU Denver.
• Dinosaur Tracks in Holyoke Massachusetts.
• Earthwatch Dinosaur Tracking Projects. These projects have been and will be carried out with the generous support of Earthwatch and are part of the on-going study of the dinosaur footprints of the middle Jurassic (Ravenscar Group) of the Cleveland area of Yorkshire which is being carried out by the Sheffield Dinosaur Track Research Group, University of Sheffield.
• Fossil footprints show foot-movement similarity in dinosaurs and birds A new study of dinosaur footprints preserved in three dimensions finds similarities and differences between modern-day fowl and ancient theropods. The study's authors still believe birds evolved from dinosaurs. The research appears in Nature and was led by Brown University scientists.
• Glen Kubans info on tracksites. This is an excellent source of information on tracksites and studies. Includes the following categories and more:
  • Dinosaur Valley State Park. Glen Rose, Texas Dinosaur Valley State Park is located in Somervell County Texas, near the town of Glen Rose. Covering over 1500 acres and designated a National Natural Landmark in 1969, the park is great place to view the fossilized dinosaur footprints, as well as to hike, camp, picnic, fish, swim, and enjoy beautiful scenery and wildlife. The world-famous dinosaur tracks in the park occur in a branch of the Brazos River called the Paluxy. The park is open year round, but late summer is the best time to visit for viewing the tracks, when the river level is generally low. Those planning a visit are advised to contact the park to check on current river and weather conditions:
  • An Overview of Dinosaur Tracking. By Glen J. Kuban Dinosaur tracks are remarkably abundant in many areas, and provide rich sources of scientific information on dinosaur behavior, locomotion, foot anatomy, ecology, chronology, and geographic distributions. Yet for many years dinosaur tracks were largely neglected by most paleontologists, who often seemed to view them as incidental curiosities. Fortunately, this attitude changed dramatically in recent years. The widespread revival of interest in dinosaurs has been paralleled by a renewed interest in dinosaur tracks. Today countless amateur and professional "trackers" are actively studying track- sites all around the world. New sites are being discovered at a rapid rate, and track studies are becoming more detailed and systematic as the scientific importance of tracks becomes more widely recognized.
  • The Paluxy Dinosaur/"Man Track" Controversy, Glen J. Kuban for many years claims were made by strict creationists that human footprints or "giant man tracks" occur alongside dinosaur tracks in the limestone shelves of the Paluxy Riverbed, near Glen Rose Texas. Careful scientific examinations of the Paluxy evidence have convincingly refuted the "man track" claims, and led to their abandonment even by most creationists. The supposed human tracks have involved a variety of phenomena, including forms of elongate (metatarsal) dinosaur tracks, erosional features, indistinct markings of uncertain origin, and some doctored and carved specimens (most of the latter on loose blocks of rock). This Web site provides a collection of articles (most previously published) reviewing the history of the controversy and evidence involved, along with more general resources on dinosaur tracks.
• Mill Canyon/Copper Ridge Dinosaur Tracks The Mill Canyon Dinosaur Trail is a bold experiment; there are no guards or fences here. You, the visitor, are the protector of this valuable resource. It is illegal to remove, deface, or destroy improvements, rocks, and fossils
• PANJAEA. Formerly known as the Newark Basin Fossil Footprint Research Group, they have changed their name to PANJAEA, the Pennsylvania-New Jersey Ancient Earth Association. While they have expanded our Triassic-Jurassic research to include bones and plants, they have alot of information on new fossil footprint localities in the Triassic and Jurassic age strata of the Newark basin in southeastern Pennsylvania. Definitely worth a link on your list of sites on fossil tracks. Dino Russ 3-14-01
• Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite. At BLM's official Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite, you can find imprints left by dinosaurs along an ocean shoreline 165 million years ago who were probably looking to pick up a bite of lunch from what washed up on the last high tide. The recent discovery of rare fossil footprints on public lands near the Red Gulch/Alkali National Back Country Byway close to Shell, Wyoming,could alter current views about the Sundance Formation and the paleoenvironment of the Middle Jurassic Period.
• The Sheffield Dinosaur Track Research Group has been making a special study of the dinosaur footprints of the Ravenscar Group (middle Jurassic) of the Cleveland area of Yorkshire. In addition related projects are being or have been carried out on aspects of footprint preservation and on the non-dinosaur biotas and sedimentology of the Ravenscar Group.
• Skyline Drive Trackway Site. In December 1999 a Cañon City resident studying paleontology at the University of Denver brought to our attention the presence of dinosaur tracks on Skyline Drive. Skyline Drive travels along the top of the Dakota Formation hogback just to the west of Cañon City. Volunteers from the Dinosaur Depot developed the site during 2000 and 2001. One of the tracks can be seen on exhibit in the Dinosaur Depot. A guide brochure for the Skyline Drive Trackway Site is available in the Dinosaur Gift Shop.
• Triassic-Jurassic Footprint Project, Amerst College, MA - Developed by Paul Olsen - Currently Features the famous Hitchcock Collection at Pratt Museum, but other sites may be added in future.
• Weserbergland, Germany dinosaur trackways (Wealden, Cretaceous).Tridactyl dinosaur tracks were found by quarry worker Mr. Wiechmann in a sandstone quarry in northern Germany near Hannover in August 2004. Soon it became evident that several trackways of iguanodontids and theropods were excellently preserved in a siltstone layer covered with ripple marks. The find is so beautiful and rare that its subsequent excavation and scientific study was commenced. A cooperation between the Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover and the Dinopark Münchehagen was established to evaluate, prepare and excavate this unique find. The work is mainly conducted by Dr. Annette Broschinski (curator at the State Museum), Nils Knötschke (preparator at the Dinopark), P. Elijah Widmann (geological preparator at the State Museum), and myself, Oliver Wings (currently on a scientific trainee position at the State Museum).This website was created as a diary to document the excavation progess at irregular intervals.

Last Updated: 5/5/06 RJJ