UK's biggest ever dinosaur footprint site unearthed
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Rebecca Morelle
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Kevin Church/BBC A single track of large dinosaur footprints - like big craters in the ground trail off into the distance in a quarry of whitish-grey sandy rock, clearly showing that a large dinosaur has walked that way. In the distance stand three black and one yellow bucket, suggesting people have been working on the side. A raised bluff of dark green vegetation borders the quarry on one side off in the distance to the right.Kevin Church/BBC
These footprints were made 166 million years ago as a dinosaur walked across a lagoon
The UK's biggest ever dinosaur trackway site has been discovered in a quarry in Oxfordshire.

About 200 huge footprints, which were made 166 million years ago, criss-cross the limestone floor.

They reveal the comings and goings of two different types of dinosaurs that are thought to be a long-necked sauropod called Cetiosaurus and the smaller meat-eating Megalosaurus.

The longest trackways are 150m in length, but they could extend much further as only part of the quarry has been excavated