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Dino footprints found in Phetchabun

Dinosaur footprints in Phetchabun’s Nam Nao district. The 225-million-year footprints are believed to have been made by a sauropod. (Photo: Department of Mineral Resources)

A set of dinosaur footprints, which experts say could date back 225 million years, has been discovered in Phetchabun’s Nam Nao district, according to the Department of Mineral Resources.

Staff from the Mineral Resources Office Region 1 visited the site on Saturday to examine the footprints, which were found in a dried-up creek at the Huai Hin Lat rock formation. The prints measured 10 metres wide and three metres long.

The site can be dated back to the late Triassic Period, approximately 225 million years ago.

Kamonlak Wongko, the office’s geologist, said the…

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