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Dinosaur Footprints at Salema Beach

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Dinosaur Footprints at Salema Beach

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Parque Natural do Sudoeste Alentejano e Costa Vicentina

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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? They are random indentations in the sandstone that look like footprints?).
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