Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks
- Points 100
- Region Argentina, Latin America and the Caribbean
- More Info - UNESCO
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.
Why should you visit Ischigualasto and Talampaya Natural Parks?
The site contains a complete sequence of fossiliferous continental sediments representing the entire Triassic Period (45 million years) of geological history. No other place in the world has a fossil record comparable to that of Ischigualasto-Talampaya which reveals the evolution of vertebrate life and the nature of palaeoenvironments in the Triassic Period.
Trivia
- The site contains a complete sequence of fossiliferous continental sediments representing the entire Triassic Period (45 million years) of geological history. No other place in the world has a fossil record comparable to that of Ischigualasto-Talampaya.
- The park, also known as Moon Valley is one of the greatest paleontology reserves of the world, plentiful in remains of vertebrates from the Mesozoic Era and early dinosaur footprints!
- Human activity of deforestation, land clearing for mining, agriculture etc has greatly disturbed this fragile ecoregion.
Year of Inscription: 2000
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