There is a record of dinosaur footprints being found in 1800 by Pliny Moody in Massachusetts. Around this time, scholars from Harvard and Yale were convinced that these footprints were from Noah’s Raven. Other dinosaur footprints found during the 1800s in New England were not thought to be important so many of them were blown up when the quarries formed.

Another important find of dinosaur footprints (and possibly the first) occurred in 1906 by the Ravenscar Group in the Cleveland area of Yorkshire. These footprints were also not regarded as particularly interesting but were later analyzed seriously by the Sheffield group. They were found to be from a common type of dinosaur and included sauropod tracks, stegosaur tracks, theropod tracks and ornithopod tracks.