Dinosaur Provincial Park
World Heritage Site
- Official name
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Dinosaur Provincial Park |
UNESCO
- Country
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Canada |
Map
- Continent
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North America
- Location
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50.7677° Lat, -111.4922° Lon |
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- Code
- 71
- Time Zone
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America/Toronto (EST, -0500)
- Current Time
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- Category
- Natural
- Description
- Inscribed 1979. In addition to its particularly beautiful scenery, Dinosaur Provincial Park – located at the heart of the province of Alberta's badlands – contains some of the most important fossil discoveries ever made from the 'Age of Reptiles', in particular about 35 species of dinosaur, dating back some 75 million years.
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