Dinosaur Footprints Reservation

This article is about a nature reserve. For fossil footprints, see Trace fossil. For their study, see Ichnology.
A footprint of Eubrontes, the most common dinosaur ichnogenus found at Dinosaur Footprints.

Dinosaur Footprints in Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA is an 8-acre (3 ha) wilderness reservation purchased for the public in 1935 by The Trustees of Reservations. The Reservation is currently being managed with the assistance from the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR). The fossil and plant resources on the adjacent Holyoke Gas and Electric (HG&E) riverfront property are being managed cooperatively by The Trustees, Mass DCR, and HG&E.

the footprints in a row, as the dinosaurs walked

The dinosaur tracks at this site were among the first to be scientifically described in 1836,[1] and are still visible to visitors. Hundreds of tracks, which were made by as many as four distinct types of two-legged dinosaur, are present in the sandstone outcrops. Additional fossils that have been found at the site or nearby include invertebrate burrows, fish, and plants (including charcoalified logs and leaves). The parallel orientation of many of the dinosaur trackways was among the first lines of evidence used to support the novel theory that dinosaurs traveled in packs or groups.

  1. ^ Hitchcock, Edward (1836). "Ornithichnology.-Description of the foot marks of birds, (Ornithichnites) on new Red Sandstone in Massachusetts". American Journal of Science and Arts. 29: 307–340.