A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Dinosaur tracks at Dinosaur Ridge, near Denver, Colorado |
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| Description | A national landmark, Dinosaur Ridge is located on the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains near Morrison, Colorado. The site contains Jurassic dinosaur bones including both Stegosaurus and Apatosaurus, and Cretaceous footprints belonging to ornithopods and theropods. Here we see the main dinosaur tracksite showing many thick-toed ornithopod (Caririchnium) tracks and a few slender toed theropod (Magnoavipes) tracks. Beds are mid Cretaceous (Early Cenomanian). This is part of the dinosaur freeway: a series of track-bearing layers that can be correlated laterally for hundreds of miles south into New Mexico. |
| Chronostratigraphy | Cretaceous |
| Geologic province | Rocky Mountains |
| Location | USA ▹ Colorado ▹ Denver. Near Denver. Dinosaur Ridge. |
| Photographer | Dexter Perkins. 1999. |
| Collection | E16I023991F-25. |
| Key words | dinosaur, tracks, magnoavipes, Colorado, caririchnium |
| Tech details | 332 KB. Outcrop. Canon EOS Rebel, 55mm, Kodak Elite Chrome 100 ASA. |
| GeoDIL number | 1763 |
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