Phu Wiang Dinosaur Footprints

Khon Kaen Province


There are about 70 footprints in 12 very clear sets of tracks preserved in sandstone here. They're 140 million years old, mostly from a very small dinosaur in the Ornithomimosaur family, but there are a few big ones too.


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