Book Fauna Palaestina 4 Year 2014 By Prof Dr Norman Ali Bassam Khalaf von Jaffa ISBN 978-9950-383-77-7

I visited Beit Zeit, West of Al-Quds (Jerusalem), on 09.07.2013 and
examined the Beit Zeit Dinosaur Tracks accompanied with my
beloved wife Ola and my beloved daughter Nora.
The Discovery:
The discovery of the Beit Zeit (Beit Zayit) dinosaur tracks, just a
few kilometers west of Al-Quds (Jerusalem), was made by Mr.
Mordechai Sofer, a former geology student at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. During the summer of 1962, Mr.
Mordechai Sofer informed Prof. Moshe Avnimelech that
mysterious imprints were left in the rocks in the garden of Mr.
Schwarzwald, who was as Mr. Sofer, a resident of the Beit Zeit
village. The next day Prof. Moshe Avnimelech visited the
construction site. What he found was a continuous row of tracks,
stretching for some 10 meter. It seemed that the tracks went on
onto the hillock to the east and north of the exposed area. Later
when a further area of 400 sq. m. was uncovered numerous
additional tracks similar in form, pattern and direction were
revealed (Avnimelech and Bervoets; Khalaf-von Jaffa, 2006).
Age of the tracks:
The age of the tracks is fixed by what is known of the geological
structure and history of the Judean Hills, a layer at least 500 meter
thick that constitute a part of a series of strata deposited from the
Early Cretaceous (Barremian Period) to the Late Cretaceous
(Campanian period). The strata were the tracks are found are
usually assigned to the lowest part of the Cenomanian series, but
the possibility that they belong to the Upper Albian may not be
excluded. So, the age may be estimated ninety to hundred million
years (Avnimelech and Bervoets; Khalaf-von Jaffa, 2006).
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