Sauropod Tracks

Sauropods, long-necked plant-eating dinosaurs, also passed through this site. These four-legged herbivores left front footprints slightly smaller than their back footprints, with lima bean-shaped front tracks 8-9 inches long and large hind tracks, sometimes resembling elephant tracks or large dinner plates, 13-19 inches long. A few hind tracks preserve toes jutting to the side. One sauropod crossed the site after a large theropod and stepped on top of the theropod's track, preserving evidence that the large theropod passed through first and the sauropod followed later. This track type is known as Brontopodus and dates to the Early Cretaceous, about 112 million years ago, in the Cedar Mountain Formation.

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