Most scientists now have enough information to know what kind of dinosaur made the mysterious eubrontes tracks.

Let's review what we have so far.

  1. The animal that created the track was bipedal, walked on two feet.
  2. The animal that created the tracks had three toes.
  3. If we compare tracks from animals that are alive today with the mysterious track, the closest match is a bird track.
  4. After further investigation, scientists agree that the animal that most likely could have made the track was a bipedal, three toed dinosaur.
  5. After using radiometric dating scientists now know that the dinosaur that made the tracks lived between 200 and 350 million years ago.
  6. After comparing all of the information above with found fossils most scientists believe the dinosaur that created the Eubrontes track was a Dilophosaurus.

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How fast was it?

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Special Note!
This is a small example of how scientists determine what kind of dinosaur created the mysterious Eubrontes tracks. Scientists actually spent years looking at many more dinosaurs than the six used to compare to the Eubrontes track in this Web site. During the 1970's for example, scientists thought the Eubrontes tracks were made by a Megalosaurus. It wasn't until after the scientists determined the age of the rock, combined with careful observations of all the dinosaurs fossils found during the Triassic period, did they conclude that the most likely dinosaur that created the Eubrontes' track was a Dilophosaurus.

But scientists didn't stop here. They had other questions and they believed the tracks and the skeleton could help answer them.

What did Dilophosaurus look like?

How fast was Dilophosaurus?