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Youngest dinosaur tracks ever discovered on South African coastline
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The Independent News
First, dinosaur tracks aged around 140 million years were reported in 2025 on a remote stretch of the coast in South Africa’s Western Cape province.
In our study we estimate that these tracks are 132 million years old, making them the youngest known dinosaur tracks in southern Africa (50 million years younger than the youngest tracks reported from the Karoo Basin).
They form the second record of dinosaur tracks from the South African Cretaceous, and the second record from the Western Cape province.
Dinosaur tracks from the Triassic and Jurassic periods are abundant in Lesotho and surrounding areas in South Africa’s Free State and Eastern Cape provinces.
Our research paper simply intends to document that dinosaur tracks of this age are relatively plentiful in the Brenton Formation.