Tiny South African Coast Uncovers Southern Africa’s Youngest Cretaceous Dinosaur Tracks
At a small 40-by-5-meter outcrop in the Brenton Formation near Knysna, researchers found more than two dozen dinosaur tracks dating to about 132 million years ago, the youngest known in southern Africa and only the second Cretaceous track record for the Western Cape; the prints suggest theropods and possibly ornithopods or sauropods, indicating repeated dinosaur activity in a landscape that may have included river channels or sandy shores, with studies hindered by tidal exposure and post-eruption layers that obscure the record.