Saint-Laurent-de-Trèves Dinosaur Footprints

Theropod footprints in a limestone slab on a clifftop village above Florac

A short, signposted detour from Florac up onto the eastern flank of the Causse Méjean brings you to Saint-Laurent-de-Trèves, where roughly twenty dinosaur footprints are preserved in a slab of Jurassic limestone next to a tiny ruined church. The footprints are clear three-toed impressions about 30 cm long, left by small theropods. There is a covered shelter over the site and information panels explaining what the landscape looked like 190 million years ago.

About 15 minutes by car from Florac. Free.

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The tracks were left in soft mud by bipedal dinosaurs around 190 million years ago, when this hillside was the shore of a shallow Jurassic sea. They were exposed by quarrying and identified in the 1960s; the surrounding patch of rock has been preserved in situ.