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The "drag" mark was created by a much smaller
animal. The heel-mark imprint belongs to someone with about a size 15 foot
given that the paper in the photo is 8 1/2 x 11 for comparison. The tracks
where the "drag" appears are all much smaller... perhaps 3 to 4 inches and
multiple animals.
PB
Hi, All!
Hmmm... It kind
of sounds as though the animal which made these tracks might have been
uncomfortably out-of-kilter in this soft mud with a firm crust over it, and
been stumbling and flailing - which would explain both the heel-mark
(metatarsal) in the photo _and_ the curved tail marks. Not a "drag" - more of
a "slap".
My 1.5
cents-worth,
Bruce
<SNIP>
The tail-drag imprint was very faint and if the
volunteer at the site hadn't pointed it out I would have missed it. I
did take a picture but looking at it now, I can't pick out where the drag
is. Once again, relying on memory, I remember these as being slightly
sickle shaped... one bent to the left, the other to the right as if the tail
were in motion assisting the animals balance rather than a straight drag
that might infer prey being dragged (as suggested as a possibility
elsewhere).
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