Photos for the Megatracksite


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These are three-toed therapod tracks exposed at the "Megatracksite" north of Moab Utah. These tracks were made by meat-eating dinosaurs during the Jurassic.


 

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These ripples are slightly sinuous and have mud drapes near their troughs. These ripples are in the unit that also contains the tracks. What information do these ripples give about the environment the dinosaurs lived in?


 

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More ripples.


 

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These ripples show flow toward the northwest.


 

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The therapod trackway.


 

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A therapod track.


 

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A reconstruction of a Stegosaurus (from Dinosaur National Monument).


 

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A reconstructed Allosaurus skeleton (from Dinosaur National Monument). Allosaurus was a type of Theropod.