The Prehistoric Trackways National Monument was established in 2009 to conserve, protect, and enhance the unique and nationally-important paleontological, scientific, educational, scenic, and recreational resources and values of the Robledo Mountains in southern New Mexico. The Monument includes a major deposit of Paleozoic Era fossilized footprint megatrackways within approximately 5,280 acres.

The trackways contain footprints of numerous amphibians, reptiles, and insects (including previously unknown species), plants, and petrified wood dating back 280 million years, which collectively provide new opportunities to understand animal behaviors and environments from a time predating dinosaurs. The site contains one of the most scientifically-significant Early Permian track sites in the world.

Source: BLM Website (March 2023)

Establishment Prehistoric Trackways National Monument — March 30, 2009

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Annual Manager's Report: 2021, Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (Jesarey Barela, Carty Carson, Patrick Driscoll, Colin Dunn, Edna Flores, Garrett Leitermann, Enrico Smith, Lance Weinbrenner and Mara Weisenberger, 2021)

Annual Manager's Report: 2022, Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (Jesarey Barela, Carty Carson, Amber Giove, Colin Dunn, Garrett Leitermann, Enrico Smith, Lance Weinbrenner and Mara Weisenberger, 2022)

Annual Manager's Report: 2023, Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (Jesarey Barela, Meredith Dalton, Colin R. Dunn, Amber Giove, Melissa Hovey, Garrett Leitermann, Justin Padilla, Enrico Smith and Lance Weinbrenner, 2023)

Annual Manager's Report: 2024, Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (Jesarey Barela, Jesse Bergloff, Kevin Chesak, Meredith Dalton, Colin R. Dunn, Amber Giove, Lane Hauser, Patrick Kark, Garrett Leitermann, Enrico Smith and Lance Weinbrenner, 2024)

Carboniferous-Permian Transition in the Robledo Mountains, Southern New Mexico (Spencer G. Lucas and William A. DiMichele, eds., New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Bulletin 65, 2015)

Foreword (Philip A. Gensler)

Preface (Spencer G. Lucas and William A. DiMichele)

Carboniferous-Permian transition in the Robledo Mountains, southern New Mexico: An overview (Spencer G. Lucas and William A. DiMichele)

The Pennsylvanian-Permian section at Robledo Mountain, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA (Karl Krainer, Spencer G. Lucas, Daniel Vachard and James E. Barrick)

The Lower Permian Hueco Group, Robledo Mountains, New Mexico (Spencer G. Lucas, Karl Krainer and Daniel Vachard)

Geology of Prehistoric Trackways National Monument, Doña Ana County, New Mexico (Spencer G. Lucas, Karl Krainer, John Nelson and Scott Elrick)

Walchian charcoalified wood from the Early Permian Community Pit Formation in Prehistoric Trackways National Monument, New Mexico, U.S.A., and its paleoecological implications (Howard Falcon-Lang, Francine Kurzawe and Spencer G. Lucas)

A compositionally unique voltzian conifer-callipterid flora from a carbonate-filled channel, Lower Permian, Robledo Mountains, New Mexico, and its broader significance (William A. DiMichele, Dan S. Chaney, Howard Falcon-Lang, Hans Kerp, Cindy V. Looy, Spencer G. Lucas, Karl Krainer and Sebastian Voigt)

Early Permian fossil floras from the red beds of Prehistoric Trackways National Monument, southern New Mexico (William A. DiMichele, Spencer G. Lucas, Cindy V. Looy, Dan S. Chaney and Sebastian Voigt)

A Selenichnites ichnoassociation from Early Permian tidal flats of the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument of south-central New Mexico (Allan J Lerner and Spencer G. Lucas)

Permian tetrapod ichnodiversity of the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (south-central New Mexico, U.S.A.) (Sebastian Voigt and Spencer G. Lucas)

Enabling Legislation, Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, March 30, 2009)

Manager's Report, FY2011, Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (Tom Phillips, 2011)

Manager's Report, FY2014, Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (Bill Childress, 2014)

Map, Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (BLM, 2015)

Newspaper: Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (2023)

Resource Management Plan, Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (Final, December 2014)

Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan, Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (November 2015)

Science Plan, Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (BLM, 2019)

The Prehistoric Trackways National Monument, Permian of Southern New Mexico, U.S.A. (Spencer G. Lucas, Sebastian Voigt, Allan J. Lerner, Jerry P. MacDonald, Justin A. Spielmann and Matthew D. Celeskey, extract from Ichnology Newsletter, No. 28, 2011)

Traces of a Permian Seacoast: Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (Spencer G. Lucas, Matt Celeskey and Sebastian Voigt, 2011)

Discovery! Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (2012)