British Dinosaurs Footprints

Dinosaur tracks in Britain offer a fascinating window into the lives of these ancient creatures, preserved in stone across landscapes that today range from rugged coastlines to inland quarries. Unlike body fossils, which record bones and teeth, these ichnites capture behavior: footprints frozen at the moment of contact between foot and sediment. Spanning the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods—roughly 250 to 65 million years ago—British tracksites chronicle the passage of bipedal theropods, long-necked sauropodomorphs, armored ornithischians, and even smaller mammals or pterosaurs that shared their world.