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INTRODUCTIONIn late 2002, dinosaur footprints were discovered on loose blocks of sandstone, as well as in situ, on the foreshore at Lub Score, northwest Trotternish Peninsula, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK (Fig. 1). The majority of these footprints were much smaller than any previously found in Scotland, and were closely associated with larger footprints of what seems likely to be the same species. These footprints are stratigraphically younger than any other dinosaur remains found in Scotland to date, and are different from those found elsewhere from the Middle Jurassic succession on the Isle of Skye (Fig. 2).

SynopsisThe first in situ dinosaur tracks from Scotland were discovered at the top of the Duntulm Formation (Bathonian, Jurassic) near to Staffin in northeastern Skye. Fifteen individual tridactyl footprints were recorded of which two pairs appear to have been part of the same trackway. The footprints are preserved as natural moulds on a mudcracked sandstone surface. The individual track sizes range from about 30 cm to over 50 cm in length with narrow to broad digits suggestive of having been made by a medium to large bipedal dinosaur.

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