Palaeontologists believe the footprints, known as a trackway, were left by a very early sauropod or a prosauropod dating from the Triassic period
"We also saw displacement rims where mud had been pushed up. These structures are characteristic of active movement through the soft ground."
This suggested the identity of the animal that made them, along with further evidence that the impressions were in fact footprints. "We don't know if this species was the track maker, but it is another clue which suggests something like it could have made these tracks."
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