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ischigualasto and talampaya


states: [argentina]

category: natural

year: 2000

location: Provinces of San Juan and La Rioja

region: Latin America and the Caribbean

latitude/longitude: -30.0000000000, -68.0000000000

Ischigualasto And Talampaya

These two contiguous parks, extending over 275,300 ha in the desert region on the western border of the Sierra Pampeanas of central Argentina, contain the most complete continental fossil record known from the Triassic Period (245-208 million years ago). Six geological formations in the parks contain fossils of a wide range of ancestors of mammals, dinosaurs and plants revealing the evolution of vertebrates and the nature of palaeo-environments in the Triassic Period.

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