Cetiosauruses and a megalosaurus are thought to have left prints at trackway dating to nearly 166m years ago
Gary Johnson was clearing clay with a digger at the Oxfordshire quarry where he works when he hit an unexpected bump in the limestone surface.
“I thought, it’s just an abnormality in the ground,” he said. “But then it got to another, three metres along, and it was hump again, and then it went another three metres, hump again.”
What Johnson had discovered was part of an enormous dinosaur trackway dating to nearly 166m years ago, when the quarry was a warm, shallow lagoon crisscrossed by the huge creatures.
“I thought I’m the first person to see them,” Johnson, a worker at Dewars Farm Quarry, told the BBC. “And it was so surreal – a bit of a tingling moment, really.”
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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/02/large-dinosaur-footprints-oxfordshire-quarry-cetiosaurus-megalosaurus
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