230 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Footprint Found in North Spain

[inanna]

Source: Associated Press

MADRID — May 2, 2016, 1:15 PM

Spain says a footprint of a dinosaur that roamed the area 230 million years ago has been found in northeastern Catalonia, and says it's the best preserved dinosaur print seen so far in the Iberian Peninsula.

The print of a reptile-like creature called an Isochirotherium — an ancestor of dinosaurs and crocodiles — was discovered in early April by a person out walking in Olesa de Montserrat, 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Barcelona.

The government said Monday that a plaster cast of the print was made by the town's council and handed over to the region's archaeology and paleontology department "so it can be studied and preserved."

The statement said the "conservation status is exceptional and retains details of claws and skin."


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/230-million-year-dinosaur-footprint-found-north-spain-38819647

[left-of-center2012]

1. Very interesting. Thanks

Here's a picture of a Isochirotherium. (No, I didn't say 'photo')
At least this is what popped up when I put 'Isochirotherium' into Google images.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Isochirotherium is an 'ichnogenus' - only known from its footprints

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century_in_ichnology

so any picture is fairly speculative.

Isochirotherium trackways, their possible trackmakers (?Arizonasaurus)

[Demonaut]

2. when will CBS have the technology to post an image of their news topics?

[snooper2]

5. not sure, but the linked article is from ABC and they have a picture

LOL

[sofa king]

4. It was Dick Cheney's Florsheim