Noted dinosaur hunter Ray Stanford discovered that fossilized footprint one afternoon this summer after noticing an unusual rock formation jutting out ever-so-slightly from a hillside on campus. Authorities at Goddard Space Flight Center called in Dr. Robert Weems, emeritus paleontologist for the USGS to come look at the track.
On Thursday Aug. 23rd Weems confirmed that is it in fact a footprint that was made by a nodosaur, a large plant-eating dinosaur that lived approximately 110-to 112-million years ago during the Cretaceous Period.