Vale dos Dinossauros Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Vale dos Dinossauros
The valley holds over 50 types of ancient animal tracks, including those of stegosaurids, allosauroids, and iguanodonts. The valley covers an area of about 700 km² (270 sq mi) that includes the city of Sousa, Paraíba, and ten other municipalities. Tracks have been found in about 30 locations in the valley, with fossilized footprints of over 80 species at about 20 different stratographic levels. Most of the tracks are of carnivorous dinosaurs. The tracks the dinosaurs made in the damp earth beside ponds and rivers in rainy periods hardened over long periods of drought, gained new layers of sand and clay from floods, and fossilized. Footprints are as small as 5 centimetres (2.0 in), perhaps from dinosaurs the size of modern chickens, up to 40 centimetres (16 in) long, such as that of a four-
Top Attractions in Vale dos Dinossauros
Explore the best things to see and do in Vale dos Dinossauros:
- ★Passagem das Pedras
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