B.C. researchers confirm footprints of three-toed dinosaur with club-like tail

3-toed dinosaur footprint found in B.C. leads to discovery of new species

The dinosaur that made them is said to be between five and six metres long, spiky and armoured with a stiff tail or full club. The species has been named Ruopodosaurus clava.

BC Researchers Confirm Footprints of Three-Toed Dinosaur With Club-Like Tail

Armoured dinosaurs with clubbed tails once roamed in what is now northeastern British Columbia, a new study suggests, leaving three-toed footprints across the landscape when the Rocky Mountains were still in their infancy. The study published this month in the peer-reviewed Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology analyzed fossilized footprints dating back about 100 million years in the Tumbler Ridge area, northeast of Prince George, as well as northw…

B.C. researchers confirm footprints of three-toed dinosaur with club-like tail

Armoured dinosaurs with clubbed tails once roamed in what is now northeastern British Columbia, a new study suggests, leaving three-toed footprints across the landscape when the Rocky Mountains were still in their infancy.

First-ever footprints of armoured dinosaurs discovered in the Canadian Rockies

A new study describes the first three-toed, ankylosaurid ankylosaur footprints to be discovered in the world.Victoria Arbour with Ruopodosaurus holotype in the field in August 2023. Credit: Royal BC Museum. In a new study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, a research team including Dr. Victoria Arbour, the curator of palaeontology at the Royal BC Museum, and researchers from the Tumbler Ridge Museum and the Tumbler Ridge UNESCO…

3-toed dinosaur footprint found in B.C. leads to discovery of new species #News #Canadian #CDN

One relatively small step taken 100 million years ago is now one giant leap for scientists. A fossil of a dinosaur footprint has led to the discovery of a new species that once roamed B.C. near Tumbler Ridge. “When we started to see some of these unusual, clearly ankylosaur footprints, but they only have three toes, we were kind of able to make this connection that, OK, these are specifically being made by the ones with tail clubs,” Victoria Arb…

B.C. researchers confirm footprints of three-toed dinosaur with club-like tail – Energeticcity.ca

Armoured dinosaurs with clubbed tails once roamed in what is now northeastern British Columbia, a new study suggests, leaving three-toed footprints across the landscape when the Rocky Mountains were still in their infancy. The study published this month in the peer-reviewed Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology analyzed fossilized footprints dating back about 100 million years in the Tumbler Ridge area, northeast of Prince George, as well as northw…