Nearly 200 Jurassic footprints unearthed on ‘dinosaur highway’
恐龍高速宮公路:近兩百件出土的侏儸紀足跡
Scientists have unearthed nearly 200 dinosaur footprints, dating back 166 million years to the Middle Jurassic Period, at Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire, England.
The remarkable find, first spied in 2023 when quarry worker Gary Johnson sensed “unusual bumps” on the ground while extracting limestone for road construction, has been nicknamed the “dinosaur highway” as a nod to the extensive pathways left by these prehistoric creatures.
科學家在英國在戴華斯採石場牛津郡挖掘出土將近兩百件恐龍足跡，追溯166億年到中古侏儸紀時期。非常明顯發現、在2023採石場工人蓋瑞偵測到第一個標本─在道路工程掏金時，發現不太尋常的凸起物在地上，就被命名為恐龍高速公路。這像是對史前生物的遼闊遺跡表示贊同。
While other Jurassic pathways have been documented globally, the recent “highway” discovery in Oxfordshire is the largest known dinosaur track site in the United Kingdom.
最近的「侏儸紀高速公路」在牛津郡發現，然而其他侏儸紀道路已全球文件化，但目前發現的仍是英國史上恐龍遺址最大的遺跡。
Around 100 volunteers from the University of Birmingham and the University of Oxford collaborated this past June for one week, excavating the tracks and recording as much information as possible about the expansive site.
The discovery holds particular significance as it aligns with the 200th anniversary of the first-ever described dinosaur, the Megalosaurus, which was found in Oxfordshire in 1824.
“There’s a really long legacy in this area of exciting dinosaur tracks and body fossils,” said Kirsty Edgar, a professor of micropaleontology at the University of Birmingham in England who was involved with the excavation.
「恐龍遺跡和化石在這麼久的歷史遺產真是令人興奮！」克絲蒂愛得格說道。她是一位
英國伯明翰維大學的古生物學從事這場疏散。
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