Dinosaur tracks near gas hub site

Woodside's plans for a $30 billion gas hub in the Kimberley face another major hurdle.

Conservationists want greater protection of dinosaur footprints near the site of the proposed hub at James Price Point, a move that could affect the development.

Paleontologists say the huge footprints, scattered around the Dampier Peninsula coastline, are considered to be among the clearest in Australia, and the only evidence that stegosauruses once roamed the continent.

The prints are believed to date back about 130 million years.

The tip of Gantheaume Point has been drafted for National Heritage Listing because of its 130 million year old Megalosauropus footprint.

But, Save the Kimberley's Kerry Marvell says prints stretching up the coast to James Price Point have been ignored.

"The Heritage Council has been made aware than dinosaur footprints actually go all the way up the coast, so I wonder why they're ignoring that fact or not doing further research and seeing that as something to be protected.

"More research needs to be done about the trackway. It doesn't need to be public knowledge but it does need to be protected."

National Heritage Listing could prevent the gas hub going ahead at the site.