In Australia found a “Jurassic Park”
Archeologists found fossilized dinosaur footprints in the coastal zone of the district of Kimberley, located in the North of Western Australia.
Archeologists found fossilized dinosaur footprints in the coastal zone of the district of Kimberley, located in the North of Western Australia.
More than 20 different types of fossil imprints found on Sandstone, some of which reach more than half-meter length is the traces left by sauropods, the giant dinosaurs with long necks and tails.
These tracks, many of which become visible only during low tide, represent the “something perfect” — according to one of the leaders of the group of archaeologists, PhD, and Steve Salisbury, who called this trail is 25 km long “Australian Jurassic Park”.
“This is the most diverse collection of prints of the fauna of that period ever witnessed by scientists”, — he told in interview Bi-bi-si.
“This period of time (127 — 140 million years ago) in Australia we have no other evidence, practically no other fossils on the continent. This is the only “window” and what we see is absolutely incredible,” said the scientist.
“Twenty-one species: the tracks are about six different suborders of the carnivorous dinosaurs; about the same number of traces of various sauropod; about four different types of traces prizelogic lizards or two-legged herbivores; and, what is most amazing, in my opinion — six types of traces of armoured dinosaurs, including stegosaurs, which used in Australia we have never seen,” continued Salisbury.
Steve Salisbury has assembled a team from two Australian universities — Queensland and the name of James cook to study these ancient fingerprints after he was invited to do the keepers of the customs of the indigenous tribe Goolarabooloo.
In 2008 representatives of the local tribal people of the region of Western Australia expressed its concern about plans to construct a distribution center here.
Then they turned to Steve Salisbury with the request to document fossilized footprints in the coastal zone, considering it a part of their campaign against the construction of a gas object.
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As he says, mentions of fossil footprints are contained in the folklore of the local people, numbering thousand-year history.
“They are part of the song cycle and are part of the mythology, in particular, these traces show the appearance of a being named “Maral” — man-EMU. Wherever he went, everywhere he left a three-toed footprint, which now we recognize as the mark of the carnivorous dinosaurs,” explains Salisbury.
They assembled a group of scientists conducted in these regions from 2011 to 2016 more than 400 hours, carefully documenting all of these unique prints.
Thousands of traces was various in 48 locations in and around Cape James Price point on the Dampier Peninsula.
Scientists have studied and measured the deepening from different angles using three-dimensional photogrammetry, which allows you to design the exact models of the studied object.
For many of them they made silicone imprints in order to cast them from plaster models for the Museum exhibition.
A large part of the Australian fossils of prehistoric reptiles found in the Eastern part of the continent and dates back to the age of 115-90 mA.
Research group Steve Salisbury published in the “memoirs of the Society of vertebrate paleontology” for 2016.
Jonathan Amos
BBC Science Correspondent