The protection, conservation and sustainable use of the Courtedoux dinosaur tracksite, Canton Jura, Switzerland (original) (raw)

In February 2002, a new dinosaur tracksite was discovered on public land on the future course of the “Transjurane” highway in Courtedoux, Canton Jura northwestern Switzerland. The Courtedoux tracksite is a “multithematical” geotope (JORDAN, 2002a), with an extraordinary scientific potential and it has the potential for development into one of worldʼs largest and most important sauropod tracksites (LOCKLEY, 2002). Since its discovery, the protection and the conservation of the site in situ was promoted by the “ ...