Dinosaur Footprints of Querullpa

Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru

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They were discovered on January 20, 2002, on a hill located in the Querullpa annex, 10 minutes from Aplao. They would correspond to three different species of dinosaurs from the Jurassic period, which began approximately 175 million years ago. There are a total of 69 prints of 20 x 50 cm, with 12 addresses. with four fingers, three of them joined by a membrane and another separate and smaller. They would correspond to three different species of dinosaurs from the Jurassic period that began approximately 175 million years ago. The tracks of the tracks reveal that the animals were 2.45 meters high and a length between the head and the tail of up to 15 meters. The experts determined the age of the findings by the geological formation of the area where the footprints were found and by the fact that four toes are reflected in the footprint and not three as in more recent dinosaurs. 150 million years ago there were some animals that, according to British paleontologists from the University of Bristol, due to the footprints found in Querulpa



It is located 200 kilometers from the city of Arequipa,



These footprints correspond to a species that belongs to the theropod family, two-legged carnivorous dinosaurs that lived between the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The first studies indicate that it may be a variety very close to the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the largest carnivorous dinosaur that existed on earth.
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