Researchers believe that the area may have once been a trample ground in the Triassic period for sauropodomorphs — massive, herbivorous, long-necked dinosaurs.
The researchers said they can't say with certainty what kind of dinosaur created the tracks, but that they believe it may have been a kind of a biped sauropodomorph, a long-necked herbivorous dinosaur known to be among the largest that roamed the Earth.
The museum said the specific dinosaur could have been similar to the Camelotia, whose fossils have been discovered in Southwest England from rocks dating back to a similar period. Photos of the tracks appear to show digit impressions, but the tracks are"highly weathered," researchers said, making it"difficult, or even impossible, to determine if they were all made by the same taxon, or by several species.
What they did find, however, is that the tracks were formed in the late Triassic period between 237 and 201 million years ago. , which is not the name of a particular dinosaur species but for shape of a type of track thought to have been made by a very early sauropod or a prosauropod," Barrett said. 'We know these kinds of dinosaur were living in Britain at the time, as bones of the sauropod Camelotia have been found in Somerset in rocks dated to the same age.
The tracks analyzed have been exposed several times over the past decade, the researchers said, and have been noted by multiple members of the public. Some of the researchers started to formally document the tracks in 2009, creating models and mapping the site, but their work went unpublished and was not further disseminated until now.
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