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   ocr: parts of Texas, leaving sediments that buried the footprints deeper still. Within the last few thousand years, the Paluxy River eroded the sediments and exposed the mudflat, with its superbly preserved footprints. A trail such as this offers scientists information about how dinosaurs stood and moved. Individual footprints from the trackway give us an idea of what the feet of some dinosaurs looked like. The larger ones, So well preserved that they contain impressions of the dinosaur's toes, were almost certainly left by a plant-eating sauropod dinosaur (now thought to have been a brachiosaur), ...