fossil footprint

When Dr. Duke asked what a fossil footprint looked like, Dr. Urban pointed out the window and said, “Well, kind of like THAT!”

Young Lily from Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan found an impressive fossil footprint in January.

Paleontologist Kyung Soo Kim of Chinju National University of Education in South Korea, fossil footprint expert Martin Lockley of the University of Colorado Denver and their colleagues describe the puzzling fossil tracks in a paper published on Thursday in Scientific Reports.

He also wrote to Martin Lockley, then a fossil footprint expert at the University of Colorado in Denver, asking for advice on finding dinosaur tracks.

His effort mirrors what has been done in the United States, but for China it is unprecedented, says Richard McCrea, a fossil footprint specialist at Peace Region Paleontology Research Centre in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, and a mentor to Xing.