#eubrontes

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Much of my journey for this trip has been following collections and ancient trackways, and looking at the scaled down modern dinosaurs we are living with now. So I sampled some 3 toed Jurassic footprints, with Allosaurus being the largest, Eubrontes gigantes (possibly Dilophosaurus or a close cousin), Ceolophysis, and the last 2 are little ones are modern Corvids, a Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos), and a Bluejay (Cyanocitta cristata).

I know it's not as chronologically accurate as I would like, but the visual sizing works, and the time period kind of does for the types of rocks around the Connecticut River Valley and Western, Massachusetts, plus I get to use the Eubrontes which is a specific example from that area.

This Week in Dinosaur News: Connecticut may have picked the wrong state dinosaur, dinosaurs’ UV vision, dinosaur pirates, and more

Eubrontes tracks from Connecticut which recent research suggests may not be from a Dilophosaurus-like theropod. From: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dinosaur_State_Park_(Rocky_Hill,CT)-_close-up.JPG

Here’s what came out this week in dinosaur news:

Eubrontes tracks may have been made by a sauropodomorph instead of a predator source

UV vision may have helped dinosaurs see their way through…

This Week in Dinosaur News: Huge set of footprints documented in Western Australia, new dinosaurs, and more

Broome sauropod morphotype A, from the Yanijarri–Lurujarri section of the Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. GoolaraboolooMaja Richard Hunter alongside the pedal impression UQL-DP8-1(p). The scale bar Richard is holding is 40 cm long. Retrieved from: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2016.1269539   Here’s what came out this week in dinosaur news: A 25km long trackway in…

Source: http://www.albany.edu/~jdelano/footpr.html

Eubrontes is an ichnogenes of dinosaur trackway form the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic, and have ben found in France, Poland, Slovakia, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Australia, and the USA. Typically lumped in with the genus Grallator, Eubrontes is still an important and common type of theropod footprint. 

Usually they are about 25 to 50 cm long, with three toes and sharp claws. The original describer called the trackmaker a “thick-toed bird” and well, depending on where you stand on the bird political spectrum, he was not wrong. He called them that of a bird and not a dinosaur due to the lack of a dragging tail mark, which, I mean, more testaments to how stubborn people were about dinosaur behavior back in the day. Who knows what we’ll think is ridiculous in a hundred and fifty years?

Source: http://bcornet.tripod.com/MassExt/rockyhil.htm

Dilophosaurus is typically attributed as the trackmaker given its large size; and actually they were the first dinosaur remains found in North America, though they were first called birds. The connection between this footprint and Dilophosaurus was touched upon in the fan favorite documentary When Dinosaurs Roamed America. 

Source: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eubrontes