Lark Quarry
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Lark Quarry in Australia is the site of the world's only known record of a dinosaur stampede.
The Lark Quarry site is about 110km south west of the western Queensland town of Winton. The footprints were first discovered in the 1960s by station manager in the nearby Seymour Quarry.
Palaeontologists from the Queensland Museum and the University of Queensland excavated Lark Quarry during 1976–77. Altogether they removed more than 60 tonnes of rock, and uncovered about 210 square metres of the layer with the fossils. This shows about 3300 dinosaur footprints.
The quarry was named after Malcolm Lark, a volunteer who removed a lot of the overlying rock.
At first a sheltering roof was built over the site. This did not totally stop, however, the gradual damage caused by being exposed to the weather. The present Conservation Building that covers the trackways was constructed in 2002.
