- Aboriginal people had long know about the tracks. Aboriginal elders perceive the tracks to be imprints of Marella or Emu man, a notable creator being from the dreamtime
- 1935 Sheila Turnbull, a girl guide, the first Broome person to find the Dinosaur tracks. Her mother reported it to the authorities
- 1945 - Walter Jones reported to the WA museum that while collecting shells he had noticed impressions in sandstone near Gantheaume Point
- In the 1950’s a group of men, including Mo Gower and Kim Tapper, made casts of the dinosaur prints, and sent them to the W.A. Museum.
- First published details by Ludwig Glauert in 1952
- In 1967, Colbert and Merrilees published a more detailed account of the dinosaur prints. They examined about 20 tridactyl footprints, and attributed them to a single kind of large theropod dinosaur. (COLBERT & MERRILEES, 1967). (courtesy of Environs Kimberley)
- Apart from the footprints, there has been many different fossils found as well. Including 'worm tracks' (BRUNNSCHWEILER, 1957), microplankton, miospores, plant macrofossils and bivalves (MIDDLETON, 1990; TOWNER & GIBSON, 1983; YEATES, 1984). (courtesy of Environs Kimberley)
- Species: Megalosauropus broomeensis named by Colbert and Merrilees 1967
- Paul Foulkes, a local naturalist, discovers lots more tracks
- Early Cretaceous period
- Largest prints are 53 cm long
- Stride of 2 metres
- Meat eating theropod
- 9 metres in length.
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