4.1" Grallator Variabilis Dinosaurs Track Foot Print Jurassic Age France COA, Stand
Location: Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Weight: 11.3 Ounces
Dimensions: 6.5 Inches Long, 4.1 Inches Wide, 0.5 Inches Thick. (Matrix)
Footprint Dimensions: 4.1 Inches Tall, 2.2 Inches Wide
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Lower Jurassic Age, 200 Million Years Old.
Grallator is an ichnogenus, meaning it is a genus represented by only footprints. No fossil remains have been identified as belonging to this animal. Grallator means "stilt walker," but since no fossil remains have been found, they don't know how long its legs were. The prefix "Grallae" refers to the bird group that includes herons and storks (long-legged wading birds). Grallator Variabilis likely resembled a Coelophysis.
Grallator footprints echo across Canada, the northeastern U.S., and Europe, marked by their distinctive three toes and measuring between two to six inches. Edward Hitchcock boldly named them Grallator in 1858. This particular track from southern France comes from slates and shale that hint at shallow tidal zones or low-lying landscapes. As a theropod carnivore, Grallator hunted alone, laying eggs and leaving behind solitary trackways that tell the fierce story of a lone predator from the Jurassic age.
