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Cast Tracks Price List
All
prices stated in US Dollars.
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Specimen
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Description
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Brontopodus
$550
(Click image for larger version)
Location: Summerville Formation,
Arizona
Period: Late Jurassic
Specimen measures
approximately
27”L (68cm) x 38”W
(96cm)
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A Fleshed-Out Foot Replica
This natural
cast of a late Jurassic (150 million year old) sauropod is
named Brontopodus (meaning track of a brontosaur). The animals
was probably at about 10 feet tall at the hip and 30-50 feet
long. Natural casts, which show a
track in negative aspect, are like a replica of an actual
foot. They are formed when resistant sand or other sediment
fills in tracks made in softer mud or silt.
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Ceratopsipes
$350
(Click image for larger version)
Location: Laramie Formation,
Golden, Colorado
Period: Late Cretaceous
Specimen measures
approximately
29”L (73cm) x 25”W
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The First Horned
Dinosaur Tracks
Although horned
dinosaurs like Triceratops were common at the end of the
Cretaceous
(70-65 million years ago), and have been
known to
Science since the 1880s. Their tracks named Ceratopsipes
(meaning horned dinosaur tracks) are surprisingly rare,
and were not
found until the 1990s. Perhaps
they didn’t
walk in areas where it was
easy to make tracks. These tracks come from an old clay quarry
in Golden, Colorado which has
recently been converted into a
Golf course.
Photo: A
comparison of a human foot to a horned dinosaur reconstructed
foot.
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Hunanpus
$350
(Click image for larger version)
Location: Cretaceous Sandstones,
Hunan Province, China
Period: Cretaceous
Specimen measures
approximately
57”L (144cm) x 17”W
(43cm) |
Digging in a
Chinese Vegetable Patch
These Cretaceous
tracks (age between 140
and 65 million years) were found in a rock
outcrop in a garden at a mining village in central cxvHunanpus (meaning track
from Huanan province). The other two tracks are named
Xianxigpus (meaning track from Xianxi, the western part of
Hunan province). All tracks were made by emu-sized theropod
dinosaurs.
Photos
(above): “Tracks from a Chinese vegetable garden, Hunan
Province, China.” Local people look on as a geologist studies
Cretaceous tracks named Hunanpus (after the Chinese Province),
found in rocks that now border a vegetable garden. White latex
covers a set of tracks that are being replicated for
scientific study and museum display.
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Iguanodontid
$650
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Location: Dakota Group,
Dinosaur Ridge, Colorado
Period: Mid Cretaceous
Specimen measures
approximately
13”L (33cm) x 11”W
(28cm)
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Iguanodontid
Track from Dinosaur Ridge
Tracks of
Iguanodontid dinosaurs from Dinosaur Ridge are mid Cretaceous
in age (about 100 million years old) and come from the Dakota
Group. Tracks of this type are found in layers all over
eastern Colorado and eastern
New Mexico. They form part of a
“dinosaur freeway” or possible migration route that ran
for hundreds of miles along the
ancient
Cretaceous gulf coast.
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Ornithopod
$650
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Location: Haman Formation, South Korea
Period: Lower Cretaceous
Specimen measures
approximately
74”L (187cm) x 17”W
(43cm)
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A Perfect Trail
This trackway of
an ornithopod dinosaur from South Korea is one of the most
perfectly preserved on record. Ornithopods (meaning
bird foot) were common in the
Cretaceous (140-65 million years ago). Their tracks
are particularly abundant in
South Korea,
which is one of Asia’s dinosaur
track capitals.
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Parabrontopodus
$1,650
(Click image for larger version)
Location: Morrison Formation,
Purgatoire Site, Colorado
Period: Late Jurassic
Specimen measures
approximately
144”L (365cm) x 43”W
(109cm)
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A Big Animal
with a Narrow Trail
These are
four consecutive pairs of hind and front footprints of a late
Jurassic (150 million year old) sauropod from North America’s
largest dinosaur tracksite on the Purgatoire River in
Colorado. The track is named Parabrontopodus (meaning like
Brontopodus, or the track of a brontosaur). The animal was
probably a sub adult and it made a very narrow trackway
for such a large animal. It was
probably a Diplodocus or a relative that measured
30-50 feet long.
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Tetrasauropus
$650
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version)
Location: Chinle Group,
Cimarron Valley, New Mexico
Period: Late Triassic
Specimen measures
approximately
57”L (144cm) x 21”W
(53cm) |
World's Oldest
Tracks
These
tracks, named Tetrasauropus (meaning four footed reptile), are
probably the oldest footprints attributed to sauropods
(or brontosaurs). These late
Triassic
(210 million year old)
trackmakers, were
smaller than their Jurassic descendants,
but
may still have reached 15-20 feet in
length in some cases.
This 210 million
year old (Triassic) specimen
was molded from sandstones in a
dry stream bed (above) in the remote
Cimarron valley
of northern New Mexico.
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Therangospodus
$1,200
(Click image for larger version)
Location: Entrada-Summerville Formation,
Moab, Utah
Period: Mid Jurassic
Specimen measures approximately
154”L (391cm) x 13”W
(33cm)
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Perfect Preservation
Few dinosaur trackways are clearer and
crisper than this trackway of a late
Jurassic (150 million year old) carnivore,
or theropod, from
eastern Utah.
The track name is Therangospodus (meaning track of a broad
footed theropod). This
animal seems to have had a more fleshy
or padded foot than some of its relatives.
It was probably ostrich-sized, about
10 feet long including its tail.
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