Dinosaur Dance Floor: Numerous Tracks at Jurassic Oasis on Arizona-Utah Border

Science Daily ^ | Oct. 20, 2008

[Soliton]

University of Utah geologists identified an amazing concentration of dinosaur footprints that they call "a dinosaur dance floor," located in a wilderness on the Arizona-Utah border where there was a sandy desert oasis 190 million years ago. Located within the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, the "trample surface" (or "trampled surface") has more than 1,000 and perhaps thousands of dinosaur tracks, averaging a dozen per square yard in places. The tracks once were thought to be potholes formed by erosion. The site is so dense with dinosaur tracks that it reminds geologists of a popular arcade game in which participants dance on illuminated, moving footprints.

[Soliton]

Celebrate science!

[Regulator]

Had to do it....

[Soliton]

Had to do it....

Dude, who could blame ya?

[centurion316]

Seiler envisions the dinosaurs were "happy to be at this place, having wandered up and down many a sand dune, exhausted from the heat and the blowing sand, relieved and happy to come to a place where there was water."

What nonsense. That's not science, its a flight of fancy. Mr. Seiler might as well devine that the dinosaurs were engaged in an ectasy of diversity and multiculturalism. What evidence can Paleontology provide that dinosaurs were every happy - or not.

[Soliton]

What nonsense. That's not science, its a flight of fancy. Mr. Seiler might as well devine that the dinosaurs were engaged in an ectasy of diversity and multiculturalism. What evidence can Paleontology provide that dinosaurs were every happy - or not.

I tried to watch some dinosaur "fight club" on the discovery channel. I had to give it up when they talked about how velociraptors used hand signals. I wonder how they figured it out from a few talons and rib bones.

[SunkenCiv]

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[count-your-change]

Desert Dinosaurs? Guess they ate sand and wore lots of sunscreen.

[concentric circles]

Geologist Winston Seiler with some of the dinosaur tracks

14-inch-long Sauropodomorph dinosaur track, rear foot left impression inside of print from front foot.

Eubrontes dinosaur footprint, 16" long.

The track site, which also includes some dinosaur tail-drag marks, is located in Coyote Buttes North area along the Arizona-Utah border. It is dated to the Jurassic Period 190 million years ago.

This 4-inch long Grallator dinosaur track is among four types of dinosaur footprints identified by University of Utah geologists at a large dinosaur "trample surface" in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness near the Arizona-Utah border. They were left by a small dinosaur, perhaps only 3 feet tall.

[Fred Nerks]

Flow Patterns; Coyote Buttes Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness Area, Az

Flow patterns? Looks like the earth melted and was pulled apart like taffy.

[Tainan]

...cave art?

[uglybiker]

Dancing dinosaurs

[dougherty]

Has anyone else been to the Dinosaur Tracks in Arizona? I believe it is near Tuba City, it is simply called Dinosaur Tracks on the map we had. The Native American guides took you on a tour for a donation. The area around it looks like something from Mars! I took these photos there.

[Soliton]

Ugly Bikers make ugly things!

[wolfcreek]

These are in my neighborhood in Texas. (thank goodness they're not on a map)

[wolfcreek]

http://sgrivertexas.blogspot.com/2008/07/more-dino-tracks-on-san-gabriel.html

[ApplegateRanch]

NBC News just ran a segment about this, which had some really good footage.

It may be repeated on their later news; or MSNBC may have the footage posted.

MUCH better than the chincey pictures in the article.

[Redcitizen]

Science Party!!

It was a night like this
Forty million years ago
I lit a cigarette
Picked up a monkey skull to go
The sun was spitting fire
The sky was blue as ice
I felt a little tired
So I watched Miami Vice
I walked the dinosaur
I walked the dinosaur