There are several things we can learn from studying footprint fossils of dinosaurs of the Jurassic period. One of these things is how a particular species travels, either alone or in packs. If there are several lines of the same footprint in one space, it indicates that they are all together traveling uniformly, as if there was only 1 track, they travel alone.
Another thing you can learn is weather or not, at that specific time, what kind of activity they were doing. As I learned on the trip, you can notice very random footprint marks that show that the dinosaur was either chasing or being chased in a hunting session.
One thing paleontologists have trouble with sometimes when looking at the fossils are distinguishing which dinosaur exactly made the print. There are several tracks that look similar to each other so choosing which exactly made it nearly impossible sometimes when there are 2 or more species living in the same area with the same type of print.
Quadrangle: the area shown on a standard topographic map sheet of the US Geological Survey.
Lithology (of a rock): description of its physical characteristics visible at outcrop, in hand or core samples or with low magnification microscopy, such as colour, texture, grain size, or composition.
