Monumento Natural de Carenque

Lisbon, Portugal · built 1997

The Carenque Natural Monument is a fossil site of dinosaur footprints located in the parish of Belas in the municipality of Sintra, Portugal. It was designated as a natural monument in 1997 by Decree No. 19/97 of May 5. The site features a 120-meter-long trackway with hundreds of dinosaur footprints, including those of quadrupedal herbivores and tridactyl ichnites.

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