Scientists Find World’s First ‘Club-Tailed’ Ankylosaurid Dinosaur Footprints in BC Riverbed

Victoria Arbour, a curator of paleontology at the Royal BC Museum, poses beside a stone slab with the fossilized footprints of an ankylosaurid ankylosaur. Courtesy of Royal B.C. Museum

Footprints of the iconic armour-plated dinosaur known as nodosaurid ankylosaurs, which roamed on all fours and lived from the Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous periods, are scattered throughout the area near Tumbler Ridge, B.C.—but researchers have now discovered new prints unlike any that have emerged before.

According to the research team, this is a first-ever find.