Abstract
Dinosaurs are rare from the Middle Jurassic worldwide. The Isle of Skye, is the only place in Scotland thus far to have produced dinosaur remains. These remains consist mainly of footprints, but also several bones and teeth. These Bajocian and Bathonian remains represent an important collection of a basal eusauropod, early examples of non-neosauropod and possible basal titanosauriform eusauropods, and theropod remains that may belong to an early coelurosaur and a possible megalosaurid, basal tyrannosauroid, or dromaeosaurid. The footprints from here also suggest a rich and diverse dinosaur fauna for which further better diagnosable remains are likely to be found.
Highlights
A single footprint of a dinosaur was first found in the Middle Jurassic sediment on the Isle of Skye, Scotland in 1982 [1,2]
Eubrontes footprints have been tentatively to a prosauropod trackmaker, the consensus is that the Eubrontes footprints haveassigned been tentatively assigned to a prosauropod trackmaker, they belong to a small theropod trackmaker consensus is that they belong to a small theropod trackmaker [18]
Some of the earliest bone material found from the Middle Jurassic of the Isle of Skye is of a primitive sauropod initially considered to be a cetiosaurid [4]
Summary
A single footprint of a dinosaur was first found in the Middle Jurassic sediment on the Isle of Skye, Scotland in 1982 [1,2]. Many more discoveries of bones and tracks have supplemented our knowledge of Middle Jurassic dinosaurs in Scotland [5,6,7,8] and provided an opportunity to study dinosaurs from a period from which there is a paucity of finds worldwide [9,10]. These discoveries could substantially further our understanding of dinosaur lineages at a critical point in the evolution of many of the better-known groups of dinosaurs [11,12]. The location of the Isle of Skye and (c) known dinosaur-bearing localities
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