Near Moab in Grand County, Utah — The American Mountains (Southwest)
Sauropod Tracks
Photographed by James Hulse, March 31, 2025
1. Sauropod Tracks Marker
Inscription.
Sauropod Tracks. . Sauropods, or long-necked, plant-eating dinosaurs, are also known from this site. These four-legged herbivores had front footprints that are slightly smaller than those of their back feet. The front feet leave behind lima bean-shaped tracks that are 8-9 inches (20-23 cm) in length, with their large hind feet tracks almost resembling those of an elephant or large dinner plates at 13-19 inches (33-48 cm) long. On a few of the hind feet tracks, you are able to see their toes jutting out to the side. One of these sauropods came through the site after a large theropod and left its track on top of the theropod track, overprinting it. These types of tracks help us gain an understanding of a series of events that one cannot get from skeletal remains - the large theropod came through followed at a later time, by a sauropod., Name of Track: Brontopodus , Early Cretaceous (~112 million years ago) , Cedar Mountain Formation
Sauropods, or long-necked, plant-eating dinosaurs, are also known from this site. These four-legged herbivores had front footprints that are slightly smaller than those of their back feet. The front feet leave behind lima bean-shaped tracks that are 8-9 inches (20-23 cm) in length, with their large hind feet tracks almost resembling those of an elephant or large dinner plates at 13-19 inches (33-48 cm) long. On a few of the hind feet tracks, you are able to see their toes jutting out to the side. One of these sauropods came through the site after a large theropod and left its track on top of the theropod track, overprinting it. These types of tracks help us gain an understanding of a series of events that one cannot get from skeletal remains - the large theropod came through followed at a later time, by a sauropod.
Name of Track: Brontopodus
Early Cretaceous (~112 million years ago)
Cedar Mountain Formation
Erected by National System of Public Lands, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management.
109° 44.063′ W. Marker is near Moab, Utah, in Grand County. It is on Cotter Mine Road (County Road BLM 215) 0.2 miles south of Mill Canyon Road, on the right when traveling south. The marker is located at the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Moab UT 84532, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Canyon Country. It is also in the American Mountain West, in Colorado Plateau, and at the Four Corners. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain and also Mexicos Alta California.
Credits. This page was last revised on April 28, 2025. It was originally submitted on April 28, 2025, by James Hulse of Medina, Texas. This page has been viewed 124 times since then and 10 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3. submitted on April 28, 2025, by James Hulse of Medina, Texas.
