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Interp Panel 2. Interp Panel 3. The Purgatoire River track site, also called the Picketwire Canyonlands tracksite, is one of the largest dinosaur tracksites in North America. [1] The site is located on public land of the Comanche National Grassland, along the Purgatoire ("Picketwire") River south of La Junta in Otero County, Colorado.
Website. Government State Natural Area. First opened to the public in October, 2005, Government Canyon State Natural Area (GCSNA) preserves 12,244 acres (49.5 km 2; 19.1 sq mi) of rugged hills and canyons typical of the Texas Hill Country. It is designated a Natural Area, rather than a State Park, and therefore the primary focus is maintenance ...
The canyon and the dinosaur tracks are accessible by a hiking, biking, and horseback trail that leads 8.7 miles (14.0 km) one-way through the canyon to the Dolores Mission, the ruins of a small 19th century Catholic church, the dinosaur tracks, and the adobe-buildings of the Rourke ranch, which operated between 1871 and 1971 and is preserved as ...
The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site is a fossil site and museum at Johnson Farm in Saint George, Utah. [1] The museum preserves thousands of dinosaur footprints right at the original site of discovery. The site was discovered by accident on February 26, 2000 by Dr. Sheldon Johnson, a retired optometrist and resident of St. George.
Dinosaur footprint at the tracksite. Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite is an assemblage of fossil dinosaur footprints on public land near Shell, in Big Horn County, Wyoming. [1] They were discovered in 1997 by Erik P. Kvale, a research geologist from the Indiana Geological Survey. [2]
A severe drought that dried up a river exposed Acrocanthosaurus tracks from 113 million years ago at Dinosaur Valley State Park near Fort Worth, Texas.
United States. Extent. Arizona, Nevada and. Utah. Eubrontes, a dinosaur footprint in the Moenave Formation at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm, southwestern Utah. The Moenave Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation, in the Glen Canyon Group. It is found in Utah and Arizona. The Moenave was deposited on an erosion ...
Website. Canyons of the Ancients National Monument. Canyons of the Ancients National Monument is a national monument protecting an archaeologically significant landscape located in the southwestern region of the U.S. state of Colorado. The monument's 176,056 acres (712.47 km 2) [1] are managed by the Bureau of Land Management, as directed in ...