Dinosaur Footprints on the North Yorkshire Coast

 
Map of part of the North Yorkshire coast showing localities of dinosaur footprints. (From Geol.Assoc. Guide No. 34 "The Yorkshire Coast")

 


Above: Cast of a tridactyl (three toed) print is clearly visible in the bottom right hand corner of the photo. From a fallen block of sandstone in Burniston Bay which is between Cloughton Wyke and Scalby Bay.


Members of the Yorkshire Geological Society examining a cliff ledge at Cromer point at the north end of Scalby Bay. Disturbed sediments are believed to be due to many dinosaur footprints; "dinoturbation".

 


Above:Another footprint from foreshore near Cowlam Hole, Scalby Bay.


Above:Prints (especially centre left) which appear to be in mudstone on the underside of  a fallen block of sandstone resting on the Dogger Formation between Whitby and Saltwick Bay. The prints are infilled with sandstone. The prints may be interpreted as "scratch marks" made by a swimming dinosaur.

Left: Broad tridactyl footprints on foreshore sandstone, north of Cowlam Hole in Scalby Bay. To aid visibility, the footprints have been outlined with chalk. 

 



Above: Footprints on a fallen block of Middle Jurassic sandstone from the  foreshore in the Ravenscar area.

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