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Dinosaur footprint

Collector: Steve Friedrich


Material: rock

Period: Cretaceous

Accession number: unknown

The three-toed footprint of a dinosaur, discovered on the beach at East Wear Bay, Folkestone in 2017 by local collector and fossil hunter Steve Friedrich. It’s believed to be that of a theropod – a group of dinosaurs that includes Tyrannosaurus Rex – though this one was quite a bit smaller. The footprint is about 120 million years old.

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