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Andes, Chuquisaca Department
Sucre
Cal Orck'o dinosaur trackway wall
Fossil site Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: eyes-only: sauropod, theropod, ankylosaur and ornithopod trackways, life-size dinosaur models in the park.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: a near-vertical quarry face outside Sucre bearing 12,092 mapped Cretaceous dinosaur tracks in 465 trackways, the world's largest such site
Wikipedia documents the 1998-2015 mapping total of 12,092 individual tracks; viewing is via the adjacent Parque Cretacico
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Crumbling wall face (periodic rockfall closes the close-approach walk)2800 m altitude sun
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