the Dinosaurs and other smaller animals that lived in the southern part of Africa during the jurassic, in a “land of fire”, write the scientists have speculated that South Africa and the United States of america, in the journal PLOS ONE.
In the middenjura, about 201 to 163 million years ago, there was a lot of volcanic activity in the Karroobekken in the southern part of Africa. Large flows of lava have been washed out over the landscape, which is inhabited by dinosaurs, and the so-called synapsiden, is a kind of vertebrate animals, the mammals, belong to it.
into The deeper layers of the Karroobekken are very rich in fossils, but in the upper layer (the Great), get it on the right place. The fossils are expected to be in this tier, because it is made up of volcanic basalt. This is because it is not probable that an animal of the lava flow of this basalt, leaving, to survive.
That’s the idea changed in between the layers of basalt are also sections of sandstone were found, containing many millions of years ago, the 25th of paw prints had been left behind. These prints are most likely from the large meat-eating dinosaur, with small plantetende of the dinosaurs, and the small synapsiden.
the Dinosaurs lived in an area that was inundated by a lava flow,
from the place where the prints are found, then suspect the scientists have speculated that the animals were living in a “land of fire” with volcanic activity. The animals lived for a very stiff due to, despite the fact that their home was overrun by a lava flow.
a further study of the fossils, hoping that the paleontologists to figure out how the creatures were able to survive in this kind of environment. Probably because they found a dinosaur, and synapsiden of the last species, which is in the Karroobekken lived 183 million years ago, prior to it is completely made of volcanic rock and was covered by it.