Dino tracks

We abandoned the Red Cliffs trail as it was going up the mountain with a chain for a rail and went on a shorter Silver Reef one to check out Dinosaurs foot prints left behind approximately 190 million years ago. These trackways were created when bipedal, carnivorous theropods—such as Dilophosaurus and Megapnosaurus—walked across soft, wet mud along ancient stream margins.
This particular trail culminates at a tilted block of sandstone containing 17 clearly defined, identical track impressions left in the sediment. Interpretive panels detail the exact species—including Grallator, Kayentapus, and Eubrontes (well-known dinosaur fossil footprint classifications (ichnogenus) ) - that stepped here.Read more