Happy #FossilFriday, here's a natural cast of a hadrosaur track from the Blackhawk Formation in Utah! Groups of hadrosaurs walked across a squishy swamp during the Early Cretaceous, leaving behind prints that would have later been filled in by sand. (1/2) #paleontology#ichnology#dinosaur#science
These and many other tracks were recovered from coal mines in Carbon County, Utah. This is a map of fossils found in the Kenilworth Mine; note how the hadrosaur tracks cluster around the tree roots. This map and the track are housed at the Prehistoric Museum in Price, Utah. (2/2)
@punkpaleo I assume the hadrosaurs were eating vegetation from the trees, and that's why their tracks clustered around the tree roots? Or are there other likely explanations for this behavior?
Like, might they have used the trees as scratching posts, like bison do (American bison prefer eating grass over trees, apparently)?
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