In the footsteps of dinosaurs Payzac hiking trail
Itinerary details
A trail for the whole family, and we recommend you stop off at Mr Grancier’s house where you can see more than 500 dinosaur footprints. You’ll be amazed by the curiously shaped sandstone rocks all along this trail.
About thirty dinosaur footprints have been discovered in the Triassic sandstone in the Ardeche around Payzac. In particular, four hand-foot tracks were found, which is rare. Other footprints exist in the southern Ardèche, but those of Payzac are unique – a study has determined that these tracks belonged to a single species of dinosaur unknown elsewhere, the coelurosaurichnus grancieri, named after Mr Grancier, who discovered them.
