Triassic Lizard Footprints - Deer Barn Visitor Centre - Bradgate Park, Leicestershire - Petrosomatoglyphs on Waymarking.com

"During the Triassic period, some 350 million years after the ancient cambrian rocks (which include Swithland Slate, locally important as a source of roof slates and gravestones) were formed, they were exposed due to the erosion of the rocks above. By this point they were part of the Pangea supercontinent and desert conditions resulted in an accumulation of windblown Loess, which now forms the Mercia Mudstone Group. With the subsequent sinking of the East Midlands crust, these deposits became waterlogged and formed into red clay. It is this clay that was used to make the bricks for Bradgate House. The mudstone is only visible where it was extracted, across the stream from Bradgate House. However, it covers much of the valley floor around and beneath Cropston Reservoir, – demonstrating that the present Lin valley was also there 220 million years ago."

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At this time Bradgate was a shallow lake, and on display is a 3D print from an original specimen of fossilised footprints made by a giant lizard of the type that may have lived here in the Triassic era.

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