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The mAP veneZueLA
Some of South America’s major
dinosaur locations are shown guyAnA
on this map, together with the coLomBIA
dinosaurs found there. suRInAme
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guIAnA
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BRAZIL
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9 araripe basin
BoLIvIA
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chILe pARAguAy
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valley of the moon
ARARIPe bASIN
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vAlleY of The mooN At this location, in eastern
The Late Triassic sandstones of Brazil, the Early Cretaceous
northwest Argentina contain the limestone of the Santana
ARgentInA oldest, well-preserved dinosaur Formation is a window on the
fossils found anywhere in the world of 100 million years ago,
world. Pictured here is the tiny revealing an abundance of fish
6 12 skull of Eoraptor. It was the fossils (shown above), together
smallest dinosaur in the Valley with the carnivorous dinosaurs
auca mahuevo of the Moon. that feasted upon them.
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PIATNITZKYSAURUS
7 A meat-eater from the Middle
Jurassic, about 163 million years
gorro rigio ago, this dinosaur has been found
formation in southern Argentina, where
it may have hunted the area’s triassic period
sauropods. It is one of the few
Jurassic dinosaurs to have been keY site
discovered so far.
cretaceous period
