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Bangkok Post – Dinosaur track find could be a first for Thailand

A new set of prehistoric animal footprints, thought to be 225 million years old, have been discovered at the Tat Yai waterfalls, between the border of Phetchabun’s Nam Nao district and Khon Kaen’s Phu Pha Man district.

The Department of Mineral Resources says a team from Mineral Resources Office Region 2 (Khon Kaen) led by Tida Liard, a palaeontologist, conducted an initial survey of the site last Wednesday after it received a report of animal footprints in Phu Pha Man National Park last year.

Ms Tida said the team found the five footprint tracks on mudstone on the lower part of the Huai Hin Lad rock formation.

The first two sets of tracks belonged to a sauropod, a group of long-necked, herbivorous…

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