Wednesday, October 2, 2013

The incredible dinosaur wall of Bolivia




Yet sixty eight million years ago (give or take a million or two) this immense vertical wall was a muddy plain across which dinosaurs danced.  Although the last verb is not one usually common in describing events from the Jurassic period, puzzled palaeontologists have call it the Dinosaur Dance Floor because many of the prints are positioned in strange patterns.

Almost all of the prints are so well preserved that the individual species which made them can be ascertained.  About eight species have been recognized.  They include the Ankylosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Titanosaur and Carnotaurus.


2 comments:

  1. That is incredible - hard to believe that was flat on the ground!

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  2. It's a time capsule...of sorts.

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