Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite

Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite is an assemblage of fossil dinosaur footprints discovered in 1997 on public land near Shell, Wyoming by [http://php.indiana.edu/~kvalee Erik P. Kvale] , a research geologist from the Indiana Geological Survey. The tracks are believed to have been made during the Middle Jurassic Period, 160-180 million years b.p., on what was then a shore of the Sundance Sea. Theropod tracks are thought to be among those discovered, but evidence suggests that the tracks were made by a large, diverse group of dinosaurs. The site is managed by the Bureau of Land Management as part of the Red Gulch/Alkali National Back Country Byway and is open to the public.

ee also

* List of fossil sites "(with link directory)"

References and external links

* [http://www.wy.blm.gov/rgdt BLM Wyoming Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite Homepage]
** [http://www.blm.gov/education/feature/1999/wy BLM-Wyoming's Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite: An Ancient Shoreline Comes to Light]
** [http://www.wy.blm.gov/rgdt/photos.htm Photos]
* [http://www.geo-sciences.com/rgdttracksite.htm Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite – Wyoming’s Middle Jurassic Treasure]
* [http://www.envs.emory.edu/ichnology/IN99-RedGulch.html C. Kent Chamberlain: Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite]
* [http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/~crnoto/Wyoming%202004/11.html Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite: Photos by State University of New York at Stony Brook]