A new Middle Jurassic lagoon margin assemblage of theropod and sauropod dinosaur trackways from the Isle of Skye, Scotland

Although globally scarce, Middle Jurassic dinosaur tracks are known from the Isle of Skye, Scotland, and help indicate the palaeoenvironmental preferences and behaviour of major dinosaur clades. Here, we report an extensive new tracksite from Skye: 131 in-situ dinosaur tracks at Prince Charles’s Point on the Trotternish Peninsula. The tracks occur in multiple horizons of rippled sandstones of the Late Bathonian aged Kilmaluag Formation, part of the Great Estuarine Group, which formed in a locally, shallowly submerged marginal lagoon. We assign these tracks to two morphotypes, further divided into four morphotype subgroups, most likely representing large megalosaurid theropods, and sauropods that are either non-neosauropods or basal neosauropods. The trackways, although relatively short, evidence time-averaged milling behaviour, as observed at other tracksites in the Great Estuarine Group. The presence of sequential manus and pes sauropod tracks amends their previous identification by ge..., The photogrammetric models contained in this dataset were generated using photographs processed in Agisoft Metashape (Version 1.8.0). The photographs were taken using a DJI Matrice 300 RTK UAV with a payload of a 45-megapixel Zenmuse P1 camera, or handheld using a Nikon D5600. 
Further processing and workflow details are outlined in the main manuscript or README file accompanying this data. , , # README file for photogrammetric models and associated data with

## \"**A new Middle Jurassic lagoon margin assemblage of theropod and sauropod dinosaur trackways from the Isle of Skye, Scotland**\"

**Compiled by Tone Blakesley - 30th June 2024**

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.wh70rxwwx](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.wh70rxwwx)

This dataset contains photogrammetric models used to describe dinosaur tracks and characterise morphotypes present at the Prince Charles's Point tracksite on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Photographs and dGPS ground control point data used in their construction are also included. 

## Contents

The data provided here is divided into the following:

A - **README.md**

* This file outlines the contents of this dataset. 

B - **20230420_PCP_A.csv**

* This .csv file contains post-processed WGS 84 datum coordinates of ground control points (GCPs) used to geospatially constrain photogrammetric models which featured multiple GCPs. Models which used this data include ...