The devastating floods, which, in early July, subsided and killed at least 135 people through the Texas Hill, dug a prehistoric discovery in Travis County on Monday, experts say.
A volunteer who helps residents to clean the garbage discovered 15 major traces of three nail dinosaur, scattered in the CrissCross model along Sandy Creek district.
“The tracks that are unequivocally dinosaurs have left meat-eating dinosaurs similar to Acrocanthosaurus, a two-way carnivore about 35 feet long,” said Matthew Brown, a paleontologist working at the Jackshason School Land History Museum in Austria.
According to Brown, the tracks are approximately 110 to 115 million years, and each trace is approximately 18 to 20 inches long.
Waterways such as Sandy Creek, “swipe through Glen Rose -shaped limestone, which is a layer of rock that carries tracks and is about 110 million years old,” Brown said.
Brown on Tuesday visited the dinosaur tracks to make recommendations to state and county officials about the active disaster response to disasters and has since learned about other recently unveiled sites that may also contain dinosaur tracks.
“We also talked to the environmental monitoring company about the sensitive places they received from the state and what to beware … Basically, to make sure they do not lead heavy equipment across the tracks,” he said to avoid damage to dinosaur tracks. “This is the information we have provided, we are simply trying to set the positive tracks and then the boundaries around them so that the cleaning crews can provide them with some tips while they work in the area.”
Photos by Texas, a resident of Texas, show the tracks are slightly larger than his athletic feet and firmly inserted into a rocky white terrain.
A photo of a three -shell trace shows that it is slightly larger than the human foot. – courtesy of Carl Star
That terrain, along with swollen rivers and streams in the central state of Texas, makes an area located in the heart of the Flash Flood Alley, prone to floods.
Although most of the damage and death caused by July. Floods, concentrated in Cerro County, and 10 deaths died in Travis County, which involves the city of Austin and its suburbs – and the area also flooded the catastrophic storm.
The Travis County Judge Andy Brown said Sandy Creek was usually very dry, but last month’s flood rose to 20 feet.
“It washed the trees. He washed cars, the house, but what’s on his way,” Brown said. “So, in this part with dinosaur tracks … He torn the trees around them, and washed out the dirt and gravel that was above their other sets.”
Stander, who shared a video with CNN, inserted his camera through the dinosaur tracks at the Creek Bed.
“All this area was flooded in July. In the fourth flood. I don’t know if you can say, but here was a house that was washed,” he said, his camera lens was concentrated in trash piles, between trees clumps. “Another one of him. And my other neighbor is gone here either.”
District Judge Brown said that even when the Travis County recovers into disasters, the dinosaur tracks are “interesting to see”.
“We have many traces of dinosaurs around Texas in different places,” he added. “Just depicting what wandered in this area is fascinating exercise.”
The Travis County is just less than 200 miles south of the dinosaur Valley State Park, which is home to many dinosaur tracks embedded in Sauropods and Theron, who lived in the area about 113 million years ago. These are “dinosaur” enthusiasts and tourists who usually flood the now -dried Paluxy River fishing, bathing and kayaking, herpes.
Paleontologist Matthew Brown said he and his team are hoping to return to Travis County soon to document the tracks with maps and 3D images.
Brown said he hopes to learn more about how many creatures are represented by the trails – whether they were left by the group or one of the dinosaurs, the country of Wanderer of Texas.
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