The news concerning the presence of dinosaur footprints in the province of Bari has returned to talk about the recent discovery of some footprints on the coast of Santo Spirito and those between Trani and Bisceglie , documented by PugliaReporter.com with exclusive images:
According to what has also been learned from scientific studies, these fossil finds – which testify to the passage of creatures of probably unknown species compared to their continental cousins - date back to the Aptian, a part of the lower Cretaceous dating back to about one hundred million years ago. At the time, Puglia was also inhabited by duck-billed dinosaurs (vegetarian hadrosaurs), sauropods (long-necked), ankylosaurs (armored dinosaurs) but also by medium-sized carnosaurs whose appearance remains a mystery. What we know about them are the numerous footprints left in the abandoned quarry of the San Leonardo district, in Molfetta:
Located about a kilometer away from Pulo di Molfetta , the quarry has been in disuse since 1994 and is currently closed to the public for safety reasons. The hope is that this site can represent footprints are an important heritage that must be protected and valued. An interesting study published on the GloboChannel.com website , hypothesizing that the one present in Puglia could represent a species similar to the concavenator, a dinosaur whose fossil remains were found in nearby Spain. Only possible funding for accurate scientific studies and the protection of these finds could help the Apulians (and paleontologists) to discover more about these very important finds that reveal a totally new geological and paleontological part of Europe. Finally, we recall that the Molfetta fossil footprint site was the protagonist of one of the episodes of the documentary series ” The Dinosaur Hunter “, available on Sky .
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