Don't Look Back
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Don't Look Back
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
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Photograph - Digital Capture/faa Watermark Will Not Be On Your Finished Photograph.
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Don't look back, something might be gaining on you... Two types of dinosaurs left their footprints in the mud at the Purgatoire River Dinosaur Tracksite in the Picket Wire Canyonlands in south east Colorado. The huge plant-eating Apatosaurus formerly known as Brontosaurus plus fierce meat eaters, like the Allosaurus that left his smaller bird-like tracks in the mud as he followed along behind the big guy while thinking about his next meal.
Today, the Purgatoire River is a deeply carved, rugged and arid landscape, but about 150 million years ago, it resembled a lush conifer forest and tropical sea where the critters of the time could walk in the mud and leave their tracks.
The tracksite on the Comanche National Grasslands south of La Junta, contains over 1500 prints in 100 separate trackways extending across a quarter mile of bedrock. The famous tracksite has given Paleontologists insights into the social behavior of dinosaurs and established clues to their herd movements.
Image copyright 2016 Jon Burch Photography
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June 22nd, 2016
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