Age: 205-200 Million Years Old (Early Jurassic)
Location: Connecticut River Valley, Connecticut
Ichnogenus: Grallator
Species: Theropod dinosaur species
Highly & width: 17” x 10”
Thickness: 1”<
Largest track size: 6” x 4”
There are three very nice dinosaur footprints present on this slab with deep impressions (largest footprint being the more shallow impression). There footprints are are in their natural state
Footprints in the Connecticut river valley were originally discovered, amongst others, by a farm boy, Pliny Moody. E.B. Hitchcock, a clergyman, described the Grallator footprints and others as evidence of ancient birds. Ever since that initial discovery, the Connecticut River Valley has routinely been the site of a plethora of scientific discoveries dating back to the Late Triassic & Early Jurassic periods.
