Dinosaur Stampede

95 million years ago, when Australia had one of its inland seas and dinosaurs roamed. A mixed group of Coelurosaurs and Ornithopods were grazing near a drying clay pan at the edge of the sea.
A Theropod (mini t-Rex) charged out of the jungle across the clay pan and grabbed a victim. The rest of the group stampeded back across the clay pan to the safety of the forest. The clay set in the sun preserving the footprints forever.
In subsequent floods the footprints were covered with sand and other layers. In time the sand became sandstone and the clay became mudstone.
Millions of years passed, central Australia no longer had seas and became a desert. The top layers eroded away.
20 years ago a man fossicking for opals flipped a piece of rock and saw one small dinosaur print. Palaeontologists came and painstakingly removed the sandstone revealing the mudstone record. Individual animals were tracked through the prints and the story discovered.
Now it’s 120km off the sealed road in a remote corner of an Outback cattle station protected by building a museum over it.