Photo.
Dinosaurs` tracks on the cliff wall. © Ranabol Expeditions (
www.aventurabolivia.com
).
Cortez, who is the manager in the tour operator Ranabol
Expeditions in Cochabamba in Bolivia, explained that after making contact with
palaeontologists experts around the world through internet, he could confirm
that the tracks he discovered belonged to anquilosaurios that in fact were
dinosaurs with shell (referred from Boliviahoy.com 17/12/2003).
According to information provided by the scientist Karen Moreno, from the
British University of Bristol, the findings correspond to the formation (the
Mill-limit Cretácico Superior-Maastrichtian), similar to those of Lime Orcko,
Toro Toro and Humaca.
"It seems that they have a very wide light of step (space between track of
the member and straight left), which is characteristic for anquilosaurios, whose
tracks have been found in other localities of formación", Moreno writes in one
of his letters.
Similar commentaries on the finding were expressed by Bernardino Mamani, a
scientist of the Museum of Natural History of Bolivia of La Paz, and Giovanni
Rivers, of the Bolivian Paleontological Club (Fosilbol), that analysed the
tracks and did not reject that they were dinosaurian.
Stein Morten Lund, 13 January 2005
Additional information
Source: Boliviahoy.com -
www.boliviahoy.com
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71717097
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