Lark Quarry Trackway Reconstruction
Digital paleoenvironmental reconstruction, Lark Quarry, Australia

Scientific curator: Dr. Scott Hocknull

Created as part of the exhibition Dinosaurs Unearthed, 2023

A detailed reconstruction of the Lark Quarry dinosaur tracksite based on updated ichnological and paleoecological interpretations. The composition depicts a seasonally dynamic floodplain ecosystem dominated by dense horsetail (Equisetum) fields, shallow standing water, and drying mud surfaces, recording multiple overlapping phases of track formation rather than a single catastrophic event.
The scene integrates recent research indicating repeated movement of small ornithopod herds across the landscape, accompanied by small theropods, a larger predatory theropod (Australovenator), crocodilians, and sauropods, alongside invertebrate traces such as insect burrows and swarming mayflies. The reconstruction emphasizes behavioral ecology: herd movement, predator-prey interactions, and directional migration across a vegetated floodplain.
Created for scientific and exhibition use under the direction of Scott Hocknull, the work synthesizes trackway evidence, sedimentology, and modern 3D model data to visualize a complex, time-extended snapshot of Cretaceous ecosystem dynamics at Lark Quarry.

All vertebrate animals are depicted based on 3D models by Vlad Konstantinov.