UK's Biggest Dinosaur Footprint Site Discovered in Limestone Quarry in Oxfordshire

[Prehistory Resurrection]

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- The UK's, as well as one of the world's biggest dinosaur footprint site has been discovered by a worker in a Limestone Quarry in Oxfordshire, England.


- The site contains about 200 dinosaur footprints, made about 166 million years ago.

-There are five different trackways. Four of those were made by a herd of the sauropod Cetiosaurus. The fifth trackway has been made by the carnivorous theropod Megalosaurus.


The sauropod Cetiosaurus


The theropod Megalosaurus

[ceratopsian]

Apparently the Oxford University Museum of Natural History will have an exhibition opening soon about the find, called "Breaking Ground".

[thomasw100]

Very interesting stuff. We do need a good Cetiosaurus figure from Haolonggood or PNSO. It is such an important early sauropod species.

[Turkeysaurus]

Very interesting stuff. We do need a good Cetiosaurus figure from Haolonggood or PNSO. It is such an important early sauropod species.

Nice 1/35 size even for PNSO.Also it's proportions so evenly balanced so it doesn't look like other famous sauropods.

[Stegotyranno420]

Very interesting stuff. We do need a good Cetiosaurus figure from Haolonggood or PNSO. It is such an important early sauropod species.

Nice 1/35 size even for PNSO.Also it's proportions so evenly balanced so it doesn't look like other famous sauropods.

Then theres me who subconsciously thought this was a camarasaurus 😭😭😭😭
I guess my DinoExpert license is revoked now lol

[Faelrin]

I remember watching the 2021 Natural History Museum series (World of Wonder) a few weeks or a month ago, which had something along the lines in Episode 2. I don't know if this is the same trackway that featured in that episode or a new different one, as I've yet to watch the video, but I do remember it having sauropod tracks, and it being a rather large trackway. In fact I'll probably rewatch that as well to jog my memory.

[ceratopsian]

This is a very recent discovery and was excavated over last summer @Faelrin. So can't be in a 2021 programme.

I remember watching the 2021 Natural History Museum series (World of Wonder) a few weeks or a month ago, which had something along the lines in Episode 2. I don't know if this is the same trackway that featured in that episode or a new different one, as I've yet to watch the video, but I do remember it having sauropod tracks, and it being a rather large trackway. In fact I'll probably rewatch that as well to jog my memory.

[Libraraptor]

This even made it to the news on my local TV. They even interviewed Dr. Achim Schwermann. A neat little flare-up of the dinosaur-renaissance in the 90s

[Faelrin]

@ceratopsian It appears I forgot to come back to this, oops. Nice to know its yet another one found.

[Crackington]

Thought you might like to see another article on this from yesterday's Observer (Guardian) newspaper:

I can just see those dinosaurs plodding through the Cotswold mud | Mike Pitts https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/05/i-can-just-see-those-dinosaurs-plodding-through-the-cotswold-mud?CMP=share_btn_url