Dino Who? A recent Recorder article [May 24, “Dinosaur footprints seized in poaching case given to Amherst College”] tells us that the track(s) were made by “Eubrontes giganteous, a large dinosaur that lived about 190 million years ago.” Eubrontes giganteous is the name of the track(s) not the track-maker.
Dinosaur tracks (trace fossils) are identified by their identifiable characteristics not their genus or species which remain essentially unknown.
The track-maker may have been a medium-sized (8-10-feet long by 17-20-feet in length) Theropod dinosaur, Dilophosaurus, that roamed a paleo waterbody in our area during the early Jurassic era, 200-million years ago.
For additional information please visit dinotracksdiscovery.org.
Ed Gregory
Greenfield