Dinosaur footprints
The coastline of the Dampier Peninsula in the West Kimberley preserves one the largest and most significant stretches of dinosaur tracksites anywhere in the world. At very low tides you can see 130 million year old dinosaur footprints. These footprints often get filled with sand and sediment so can be difficult to find. Some of the types of prints found are not found anywhere else in Australia.
Did you know?
There have been five different species of dinosaur footprints found in the north of Western Australia.
In This Section
- Chordates – Animals with backbones
- Invertebrates – Animals without backbones
- Abalone
- Acorn barnacle
- Baler shell
- Blue button sea jelly
- Bluebottle
- Bryozoan
- Bubbler crabs and sand balls
- Chiton
- Cone shell
- Coral
- Cowry shell
- Crab
- Cuttlebone
- Goose barnacle
- Hermit crabs
- Horned ghost crab (Manburr)
- Limpet
- Mud crab
- Mussel
- Periwinkle
- Pipi
- Ram’s horn shell
- Razor clam
- Sand dollars
- Scallop
- Sea hare
- Sea hares
- Sea jelly
- Sea star
- Sea urchin
- Silver-lip pearl oyster
- Sponge
- Tube worm
- Turban snail
- Violet snail
- Marine Pests
- Seagrasses and Algae
- Unusual Finds