Overview
- The Carreras Pampa surface in Bolivia’s Torotoro National Park spans roughly 80,000 square feet with 1,321 mapped trackways.
- Researchers counted 16,600 three-toed prints plus 1,378 swim traces on one bedding plane, establishing the site as the largest documented dinosaur-track locality.
- Most impressions are theropod-like “ghost tracks,” with sizes from about 4 to 12 inches, while scarce skeletal remains preclude species-level identifications.
- Trackway patterns record behavior such as meandering travel, pauses, gait changes, and occasional tail drags across soft shoreline mud.
- The team characterizes the site as an ichnologic conservation Lagerstätte and continues documentation and protection efforts.