Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite



Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite is an assemblage of fossil dinosaur footprints discovered in 1997 on public land near Shell, Wyoming by Erik P. Kvale, a research geologist from the Indiana Geological Survey. The tracks are believed to have been made during the Middle Jurassic Period, 160-180 million years b.p., on what was then a shore of the Sundance Sea. Theropod tracks are thought to be among those discovered, but evidence suggests that the tracks were made by a large, diverse group of dinosaurs. The site is managed by the Bureau of Land Management as part of the Red Gulch/Alkali National Back Country Byway and is open to the public.

References and external links

 * BLM Wyoming Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite Homepage
 * BLM-Wyoming's Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite: An Ancient Shoreline Comes to Light
 * Photos
 * Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite – Wyoming’s Middle Jurassic Treasure
 * C. Kent Chamberlain: Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite
 * Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite: Photos by State University of New York at Stony Brook

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