Walking With Dinosaurs:

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A trip down the cretaceous.

The following is a recreation of the Lost field journal of Doctor Ezra W. Hammerslammer. Doctor "Thumbs" Hammerslammer. was professor of paleontology at the university of Californian at San Diego. From 1923 to 1934. I found it in the archives of the library in Dweeb Arizona. The town where this Dinosaur track way was unearthed in 1931. these drawing reflect three years of the professor's life and also his untimely death when near the end of his work he fell in to an unusually large vat of wet plaster.

 

          I Still have not been able to get a proper ID on these smaller footprints.
 

             
             
                 
               

     

The Primary track has been identified as Albertosaurus libratus, probably a juvenile,
depth of the prints indicate only three tons in weight.

      
  These footprints were laid down in what was the shore of a large lake some 87 million years ago. now hardened into stone by geologic forces, they allow a revealing look at life in the distance past.        
           
                 

         
           
 

Note, that the smaller animal turns, then darts off in the other direction.
we assume that this is a hunt, or chase scenario.
A drama of the age of Dinosaurs, now frozen in time.

        

 
     

The secondary track has been identified as, Ornithomimus Samueli.

     
               
                 
                 
               
 

Based on the animals leg length and distance between steps,
both the predator and the prey animals are running approximately 15 MPH.
How far one animal was in front of the other as the chase progressed, we just don't know.

        
                 
               
                 
                 
               
                 
               
               
                 
                 
 

Here, bits of mud, picked up from the larger print had spattered into the smaller
print while that print was still wet. Indicating that both tracks were made at about the same time.
with the smaller print being made first.

      
                 
                 
             
  Another fossilized tree trunk, They were finding more and more as the dig proceeded toward the Southeast. This site is not far from the petrified forest national monument.        
                 
                 
                 
               
                 
               
                 
               
                 
                 
                 
   
             



 
                 
               
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
  The End. Step Back     Meeb...Meeb