UK’s largest ever dinosaur footprint site unearthed in Oxfordshire

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The UK’s biggest ever dinosaur trackway that is over 166 million years old has been discovered in an Oxfordshire quarry. open image in gallery Modern techniques and technology mean the prints can be recorded much more comprehensively than ever before "This is one of the most impressive track sites I’ve ever seen, in terms of scale, in terms of the size of the tracks," said Prof Kirsty Edgar, a micropalaeontologist from the University of Birmingham. open image in gallery The site in Oxfordshire where the tracks were discovered Scientists analysing the tracks have theorised that something must have happened to preserve the fossils, such as a storm which deposited sediments on top of the footprints which prevented them from being washed away.