Panoramic Photos of Dinosaur Tracks
By John Potter
I recently visited Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, Texas. It is a 1524.72-acre, scenic park set astride the Paluxy River. 113 million years ago the Paluxy River was part of the shorelines of an ancient sea. Apparently a violent storm blew across the shoreline and created a series of sand and lime-laden mudflats then a bunch of dinosaurs proceeded to walk through it and then the tracks were gently buried with a somewhat different sediment. Their footprints are now fossilized into the rock of the riverbed. The fossilized tracks in the Paluxy belong to two main types: many are three-toed, sharp-clawed prints made by two-legged meat-eating dinosaurs called theropods and long-necked plant-eating dinosaurs known as sauropods.
The site 4 photograph above shows some very well formed and easy to spot tracks. The site 2 tracks in the photo below are more dug in at the toes as if the carnivores were running. You may also spot some large round sauropod footprints.
Although the dinosaur tracks are the highlight of Dinosaur Valley State Park the natural beauty of the place is also overwhelming, so I’ve included to panoramic photos of the river itself without any dinosaur footprints in them below just to show how pretty it is.
