Those dinosaur tracks near Moenave, Arizona, (close to Tuba City) were made by therapods.
Go to Cory Richards on Instagram to see similar tracks he photographed:
http://instagram.com/p/nyYoBYIVbb/
Here's his description of where he found them and when the therapods lived:
Theropod tracks, up to 17 inches long, cross the sandstone of Flag Point near Kanab, UT. They’re relics of an era that predates the Late Cretaceous, (likely Lower Jurassic), by 100 million yrs. Dinosaurs ruled the American West for a very very long time. This image was taken on assignment for @natgeo profiling the work being done piecing together the history of a landmass that existed roughly during the Late Cretaceous (100.5 to 66 million years ago. Exciting new paleontology is being done every season in the remote Escalante Grand Staircase National Monument, pulling species new to science from the badlands so frequently it seems that aforementioned landmass, Laramidia, was a veritable dinosaur factory. The article profiling the exhaustive work being done is in the May ’14@natgeo.
The photo shows tracks with a sprinkling of snow atop a mesa against a setting sun. Spectacular!
Check out the May 2014 National Geographic Magazine to see more.
Go to Cory Richards on Instagram to see similar tracks he photographed:
http://instagram.com/p/nyYoBYIVbb/
Here's his description of where he found them and when the therapods lived:
Theropod tracks, up to 17 inches long, cross the sandstone of Flag Point near Kanab, UT. They’re relics of an era that predates the Late Cretaceous, (likely Lower Jurassic), by 100 million yrs. Dinosaurs ruled the American West for a very very long time. This image was taken on assignment for @natgeo profiling the work being done piecing together the history of a landmass that existed roughly during the Late Cretaceous (100.5 to 66 million years ago. Exciting new paleontology is being done every season in the remote Escalante Grand Staircase National Monument, pulling species new to science from the badlands so frequently it seems that aforementioned landmass, Laramidia, was a veritable dinosaur factory. The article profiling the exhaustive work being done is in the May ’14@natgeo.
The photo shows tracks with a sprinkling of snow atop a mesa against a setting sun. Spectacular!
Check out the May 2014 National Geographic Magazine to see more.
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