China discovers dinosaur footprints dating back about 200 million years
Saw Sichuan Province in southwestern China: A remarkable scientific discovery was found in the discovery of more than twenty footprints Dinosaurs and other vertebrates dating back about 200 million years.
Fossil footprints are one of the most important direct sources for understanding the ancient behavior of extinct organisms and their environments, and allow researchers to extrapolate patterns of movement and dispersal and the environmental conditions in which these organisms lived.
Long-term settlement
A research team at the China University of Earth Sciences confirmed the authenticity of these traces, indicating that their diversity Its presence in several successive rock layers reveals the long-term settlement of these species in the region, as it includes traces of Dinosaur feet Theropod feet of various sizes, left by carnivorous dinosaurs, in addition to footprints of Chirotheria, a species with feet resembling a human hand and attributed to early archosaurian reptiles.
The researchers found pieces of petrified wood near these traces, including fallen tree trunks and standing tree trunks preserved in place; This provides additional information about the nature of the local ecosystem more than 200 million years ago.
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