Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum, Rocky Hill, Connecticut

[Sinornis]

I had a chance today to visit Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum in Rocky Hill, Connecticut. Below is a short site description and a few photographs. I hope you enjoy it!

Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum is a state-owned natural history preserve occupying 80 acres (32 ha) in the town of Rocky Hill, Connecticut. The state park protects one of the largest dinosaur track sites in North America. Its Jurassic-era sandstone-embedded fossil tracks date from about 200 million years ago.

The park's 55,000-square-foot (5,100 m2) geodesic dome encloses some 500 tracks while another 1,500 remain buried for preservation. The tracks are from the early Jurassic period and were made over 200 million years ago by a carnivorous dinosaur similar to Dilophosaurus.








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[Lanthanotus]

Thanks for sharing ... so it's "just" tracks of presumably a single theropod species? Or are there others aswell? The dioramas look interesting, do you have bigger pics?

[Sinornis]

Thanks for sharing ... so it's "just" tracks of presumably a single theropod species? Or are there others aswell? The dioramas look interesting, do you have bigger pics?

Dinosaur State Park's tracks are actually named Eubrontes, by the Reverend Edward Hitchcock. However, most scientists agree that the trackmaker was a carnivorous dinosaur similar in size and shape to Dilophosaurus. There are also a few prints on the slab of Anchisauripus. The attached Anchisauripus photo is a personally owned fossil of mine, saved from a Massachusetts construction site.

http://avianmusing.blogspot.com/2017/12/ichnology-of-new-england-by-edward.html

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

I think that Dilo was one of Malcolm Mlodoch's pieces?