Volunteers cleaning up flood debris in the Sandy Creek area of Travis County recently discovered tracks from dinosaurs that roamed the region over 100 million years ago.
What they found: University of Texas paleontologist Matthew Brown and his colleague Kenneth Bader visited the site this week and confirmed the tracks’ authenticity.
- The team found several trackways with at least 15 individual footprints etched into limestone from the Glen Rose Formation — a geological layer known for preserving ancient dinosaur activity.
- The tracks are roughly 110-115 million years old, and each footprint is around 18-20″ long, according to Brown.
What they’re saying: “The tracks that are unambiguously dinosaurs were left by meat-eating dinosaurs similar to Acrocanthosaurus, a roughly 35-foot-long bipedal carnivore,” Brown tells Axios.
What’s next: Brown and his team expect to return to the site in the future to document the tracks with maps and 3-D imaging…