Trackway

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A fossilized dinosaur footprint from a fossil trackway at Clayton Lake State Park, New Mexico.

A trackway is a set of impressions in the soft earth, usually a set of footprints, left by a life-form. A fossil trackway is the fossilized imprint of a trackway. Trackways have been found all over the world. They are especially valuable for determining some characteristics of life-forms, such as behavior. Thus some trackways for hominids in Africa showed that they lived together and were not solitary.

List of trackways:

• Theropods, near Las Cruces, New Mexico
• Dinosaurs, England
• Dinosaurs, China
• Hominids, Africa

[edit] See also

• Ichnite
• Animal tracks

[edit] External links

• Twenty-one texts on dinosaur tracks from the coal mines of central Utah

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