Scientists discover a gathering place for dinosaurs on a beach in South Wales

On the territory of South Wales in Great Britain more than 200 million years ago, in the late Triassic period, there were herds of long-necked dinosaurs.

The footprints of these dinosaurs, discovered in 2020 by amateur paleontologist Kerry Reese on a beach near Penarth, were examined by a team of experts from Liverpool John Moore University.
Judging from the density and variety of footprint chains, this place could be a kind of dinosaur gathering point.

Professor Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum, who led the research, believes that the number and nature of the trails indicate that herds of Sauropodomorphs may have grazing here.

“This type of imprinting is not particularly common elsewhere, so we believe this discovery will be an important addition to our knowledge of Triassic life,” Barrett said.

Sauropodomorphs are long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs, part of the tyrannosaurs, and they lived 231-66 million years ago on all continents, including Antarctica.
It is still difficult to say what kind of dinosaur left all these traces that are now being studied; They may have been thecodontosaurs. Researchers have created 3D models of fossil footprints dating back to the late Triassic period (237-201 million years ago) for further study in detail.