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Dinosaur Footprints at Salema Beach

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Dinosaur Footprints at Salema Beach

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  • Location: Budens, Algarve, Portugal

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    February 7, 2025

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    Dinosaur footprints around 140 million years old have been preserved directly on the beach. They come from a dinosaur of the suborder Ornithopoda. This dinosaur was around 1.50 m to 2 m tall, moved mostly bipedally on feet with three relatively broad toes without claws and was a herbivore.

    A little further east, on a sloping rock slab in an unnamed bay, six footprints from a theropod resembling chicken feet with claws have been preserved.
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    March 10, 2025

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    July 3, 2026

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    Here lies a rock with dinosaur footprints.
    Possibly a fake. Probably random indentations in the sandstone that look like footprints ... otherwise the fresh dinosaur footprints would not have been washed over by water for the next 100,000 years, but still had to solidify ...?
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