Ballroom Site Theropod Tracks 2023
Middle and North areas (previously mapped)
For photos of Ballroom photos from previous years, see:
http://paleo.cc/paluxy/ballroom/Ballroom Menu.htm
All photos and text (C) 2023 Glen J. Kuban unless otherwise indicated
The center and norther parts of the site (from the sauropod trails to the north broken edge of the track bed) feature numerous trails of theropod tracks, most of which are deep with moderately to severely mud collapsed digits. This causes many to resemble small or even "baby" tracks. Although some were probably made sub-adult dinosaurs, most were at least half grown, and if one looks closely one can almost always see the thin slits where the long digits entered the soft mud before it slumped back over the impressions. That said, there numerous tracks that have little or no mud collapsed appear to be legitimate "baby" (or small species) tracks, most of which were first documented in 2023. Several spanning a long distance appear to be in line with each other, but are not consecutive due to all the tracks between them that obliterated others in the trail. Others on both the north and south ends of the site are isolated or in shorter trails, as covered on a separate "Baby" Tracks page.
Near the intersection of the adult and juvenile sauropod trails on the east-central part of the site is an interesting collection comprising a deep, shallow, and baby theropod track, each of good quality. These are covered on a separate page Also on the north side of the site are several metatarsal tracks, including one near the end of a long "squiggle" trail, covered on a separate Squiggle Marks page.
