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Connecticut Dinosaur Print Specimen?
Maniraptora posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi all! I’m considering buying this specimen which is identified by the seller as dinosaur prints from Connecticut, but first I wanted to make sure it’s what it claims to be, and not an instance of pareidolia or similar. I also was curious whether anyone here could offer some additional info on the prints—any guesses on age, formation, more specific locality, ichnogenus, etc.? Thanks in advance. I’m very excited to buy this if none of you have any bad news to offer! -
My family and I are on short end of season camping trip in Southeastern Pennsylvania and decided to head over to Gettysburg. These have probably been covered here before but I got some pictures of the famous Dinosaur Footprints on the Bridge! My son loved it (I’m gonna pretend more than me ). Anyone know of anywhere I can go searching for some fossils while I’m in the area that’s around the Gettysburg area??
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Open Access Book - Reading Prehistoric Human Tracks
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil Literature
A very interesting open access book about prehistoric human footprints is: Pastoors, A. and Lenssen-Erz, T., 2021. Reading Prehistoric Human Tracks: Methods & Material (p. 436). Springer Nature. Reading Prehistoric Human Tracks - Springer website Yours, Paul H.-
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I recently received a few tracks from a friend and haven’t really shown them here. Enjoy Chirotherium barthii or Isochirotherium sp. Moenkopi Formation Holbrook Member Arizona 240 Million Years Old Middle Triassic These tracks were actually studied by Spencer Lucas and Hendrix Klein earlier this year. There also seems to be some plant material mixed in with the tracks in the larger slab in photo 4 as well, however I’m not to sure what species so I’ll probably post them in fossil ID later. Smaller Slab Larger Slab
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Finally found a good Chirotherium rex - the largest chirothere. Most of them have been pretty smudgy.
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It’s taken over a year of excavation, hauling and reassembly but I’ve got the trackway essentially completed. The chunk at the top needs to go at the bottom of the picture but my yard has a slope where it goes. Spencer Lucas, Hendrik Klein and four others are coming in October to study my collection so I’ll have help moving the entire trackway to finish it. 28’x18’
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These are a few of the more unusual tracks I’ve found. The tridactyl looking tracks are really interesting since they shouldn’t be here in mid-Triassic. The one that looks like a human foot is particularly creepy
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IMG_2038.MOV Here’s a video of my collection as of May. I numbered them a while back and got to 185. That doesn’t include the trackway pieces or what I’ve added since then. It’s been almost exactly two years since I found the first track. Not bad for a sixty year old guy working alone lol.
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My husband purchased this landscaping rock in a pallet from a Bath/Bethlehem, PA area supplier about 20 years ago. Most of the supplier’s stones are from Pennsylvania. I’m guessing this is sandstone??? I’ve been staring at this rock for sometime and before I place it back, I wanted to get some opinions if anyone sees any type of tracks on this rock? I feel like my fingers fit in the specimen very nicely. Can’t tell if I’m seeing 3, 4 or 5 “toes” ? Maybe I’m just an imaginative newbie. Thanking anyone in advance who looks at these photos.
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I found some more Permian tracks in New Mexico and I think they’re probably related to a Temnospondyl amphibian. I have the first track I found from this place here, but I also found one with 4 tracks in the rock that I’m fairly certain are some of the best I’ve found in a while. : Here are those tracks. Now something cool I noticed on this one is there is a track I circled here: because it pokes out on the other side, like this right here: I’ll also give you guys a close up of the ot
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Wow is all I can say. I cannot believe what I have managed to find this week alone. I went to Texas for a vacation, and I’m coming out with some of my best fossils (in my opinion) I’ve found this year. I came here hoping to score some trace fossils of what once lived here, and score some, I did! Since there are two different time zones, and 4 different types of fossils found, I’ll split them up based on environment, and time. With marine fossils going first and tracks going second. Permian first, and Cretaceous second. I’ll do a picture of the whole haul and then we’ll get started. I also was
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Been finding a few of these types of tracks recently. Will be curious to see if they actually are tridactyl dinosaurs.
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Footprints of Cat-size Stegosaur found, Tugulu Group, Xinjiang, China
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Tiny Cat-Sized Dinosaur Leaves the Smallest Stegosaur Footprint Ever Discovered by Paleontologists University of Queensland, SciTechDaily, April 17, 2021 Xing, L., Lockley, M.G., Persons IV, W.S., Klein, H., Romilio, A., Wang, D. and Wang, M., 2021. Stegosaur track assemblage from Xinjiang, China, featuring the smallest known stegosaur record. Palaios, 36(2), pp.68-76 Yours, Paul H. -
Second picture is what appears to be a tridactyl track. First picture might be also. According to the paleontologist there is discussion of the possibility of dinosaurs being around in this time period.
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Out walking and flipping rocks as usual and found a new site. I don’t recognize most of the tracks.
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Real or fake dinosaur footprints?
juan posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi everybody . Here's the story: somedays ago, one friend showed me this specimen. It was bought by her mother 4 years ago, but didn't knew the species and if it's real or not. I told her it's a Grallator footprints, probable Jurassic, but I wasn't sure if some of the footprints are real or fake What do you think? All the best and stay safe Juan -
The trackway is about 18’x12’. It’s looking good. Still have a few more pieces to go. And a couple really big ones to drag into place.
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Assembly is coming along nicely! Still hauling out pieces to fill in the gaps. Hopefully the weather will hold out.
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Have some nice trackways from the new spot.
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Found this large expanse of rock today. The few chunks I pulled out all have tracks. Need to start exploring to see where the edges are.
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Good day all. I'm new here so let me introduce myself. I'm Robert, an amateur gold prospector, fisherman and lots more. I have found nothing too interesting during my gold panning adventures well not for an untrained gold fevered eye anyways but have found tons of modern aged bones that looks old at least a few hundred years old. Anyways now since thats out of the ways I was driving through Arizona when I reached the top of the hill at the sitegreaves national forest sign off of 260. I pulled over to let my semi truck cool down and chose to hike a bit. I sat down on a rock and foun
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My new neighbor (mile away but still the closest) rented an end loader and volunteered to move two of my biggest rocks! Both safe in my collection. And even better, went up the side of the wash about eight feet and found tracks. Could be the edge of the undisturbed fossil layer.
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Took some pictures of the chirotherium tracks. Have quite a few with a front and rear together.
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8’ long, 32” wide. Excellent sets of tracks. Need a backhoe to move this one. Late in the day so pics are a bit shaded, sorry.
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Found this yesterday. It was a bit out of the water flow so it hasn’t been eroded much. Nice distinct prints.
