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A diner at a restaurant in Leshan in Sichuan Province in southwestern China received an odd entertainment for dinner.
He discovered regular holes in the floor which turned out to be hundred million year old fossilized footprints from a dinosaur, Vetenskapsradion reports.
The researchers concluded that the tracks originate from a ten-meter-long sauropod, also called longneck, which was a giant, herbivorous, long-necked dinosaur. It first appeared during the Early Jurassic, around 200 million years ago, and dominated land life on all continents during the Late Jurassic – around 50 million years later.
The study of these tracks has been published in the journal Cretaceous Research.