Monday, September 26, 2016

Cliff Dwelling in Utah Found to Have Unique Decoration: Dinosaur Tracks

Scientists searching for fossils in southern Utah have found that they certainly weren’t the first to prize the traces left behind by dinosaurs.

While on a break from a fossil hunt in Utah’s San Juan County, paleontologists explored a stone structure that had been built under a cliff overhang at least 800 years ago.



While most of the building had been made from cream-colored sandstone found nearby, one piece stood out — the pinkish rock that formed the lintel over the doorway.

It was covered in the fossilized tracks of a theropod dinosaur.



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