By The Associated Press | Posted - Jun. 29, 2015 at 6:20 p.m.

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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — Authorities are looking for a vandal after a set of dinosaur tracks northeast of Moab, Utah was found filled with plaster.

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports that Moab/Monticello Forest Service District recreation manager Brian Murdock says vandals poured plaster into some of the well-defined tracks in an attempt to make molds on three different occasions.

"I believe 6 individual tracks have been plastered, some of the multiple times over the last two weeks," said Autumn Ela, recreation specialist for the US Forest Service.

There are more than 40 different dinosaur tracks at the Bull Canyon Tracksite in the Moab section of the Manti-La Sal National Forest where the incident occurred.

Murdock says law enforcement officers with the U.S. Forest Service are investigating and that suspects have been identified.

Officials say the site is roughly 165 million years old and the tracks were made during the Jurassic period. The tracks at the site are from a three-toed dinosaur.

Contributing: Geoff Liesik

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Information from: The Daily Sentinel, http://www.gjsentinel.com

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