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The orientation of a dinosaur track assemblage can
be random or preferred. A random assemblage is typically found at
the site of what was a water hole, or a feeding ground. These tracks
vary with time and origin. A preferred assemblage provides evidence
for traveling routes and even herding. A traveling route may have
been dictated by the physical geography of the area, such as a valley that
led to a good food source. Herding has been observed in the large
herbivorous dinosaurs. The Davenport Ranch site in Texas, shown here,
is evidence of a herd containing at least 23 dinosaurs all traveling in
the same direction.
Parallel trackways
at Davenport Ranch. (Lockley, 1991)
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