The UK’s biggest ever dinosaur footprint site has been uncovered at a quarry in Oxfordshire. As many as 200 huge footprints, made 166 million years ago, were found along the limestone.
They reveal the travels of two different types of dinosaurs, believed to have been laid by a large long-necked sauropod, Cetiosaurus, and a smaller carnivorous theropod Megalosaurus. The latter was the first dinosaur ever to have been named, being discovered in 1824.
The trackways are 150 min length. But since only a part of the quarry has been dug up, they could extend far further, meaning there could be more dinosaurs that laid their footprint waiting to be discovered.
“This is one of the most impressive track sites I’ve ever seen, in terms of scale, in terms of the size of the tracks,” said Prof Kirsty Edgar, a micropalaeontologist from the University of Birmingham. “You can step back in time and get an idea of what it would have been like, these massive creatures just roaming around, going about their own business.”
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