Hunting Fossil Dinosaur Tracks In Maryland

[Oxytropidoceras]

Tireless tracker rewrote the book on dinosaurs in Maryland

by Brian Vastag, the Washington Post, April 19, 2012

http://www.washingto...RcTT_print.html and

http://www.washingto...tors_picks=true

Related papers

Stanford, R., R. E. Weems, and M. G. Lockley, 2004, A New

Dinosaur Ichnotaxon from the Lower Cretaceous Patuxent

Formation of Maryland and Virginia. Ichnos: An

International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces. vol. 11,

no. 3-4, pp. 251-259.

Abstract at http://www.tandfonli...420940490428797

Stanford, R., M. G. Lockley, and R. E. Weems, 2007, Diverse

Dinosaur-Dominated Ichnofaunas from the Potomac

Group (Lower Cretaceous) Maryland. Ichnos: An

International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces. vol. 14,

no. 3-4, pp. 155-173.

Abstract at http://www.tandfonli...420940601049404

Best wishes,

Paul

Edited April 22, 2012 by Oxytropidoceras

[Auspex]

Tomorrow's Washington Post Magazine has been set aside for my delectation in the morning

[mzkleen]

Wow. Great article. Thanks for posting the link to it.

[Lloyd]

A work collegue brought me in a copy of the WP mag with this article in it... then a search on google led me here. Incredible stuff, I absolutely had no idea that so many dinosaurs roamed Maryland.

[Auspex]

...I absolutely had no idea that so many dinosaurs roamed Maryland.

The Arundel Clay does contain tracks, but not much else.

There is skepticism about some of what this gentleman has amassed, but 300 of them were figured by Martin Lockley in the journal Ichnos, and one is prominently displayed in the Smithsonian.