Heritage Museum, Canyon Lake, Texas

The dinosaurs that walked along algae-covered mud flats left deep footprints . Those tracks were subsequently filled in and covered by sediments. Mineral-rich water seeping into the mud, along with heat and pressure of the overburden gradually turned them to stone.

The dinosaurs that made the tracks are believed to be Acrocanthosaurus and Iguanodon, and lived during the Cretaceous Period. There is also a large snail that made its tracks next to the two dinosaurs. The tracks are embedded in limestone and are slowly eroding away.  The Heritage Museum has built a huge cover over the tracks to keep the weather off of them. The Museum has over 350 preserved dinosaur tracks, estimated to be over 108 million years old.

The person who found the tracks was putting in an RV park but when excavation was begun, the tracks were discovered. The tracks were discovered by two young boys playing Frisbee when their disc landed in an odd shaped indentation in the earth.  Low and behold, it was a dinosaur track!

The park was put on hold and eventually the land was donated to the Heritage Museum in December 2002.

Ammonite Impression, 100 million years old

Weather Stone

The "Weather Stone" ~~ If the Rock is dry, the weather is fair; If the Rock is dusty, pollution is there.  If the Rock is wet, raining I'd say; If the Rock has a shadow, it's a sunny day.  If the Rock is swinging, the wind is blowing; if the Rock is white, by gosh it's snowing.