Just four kilometers from the town, on the way to Santeramo in a quarry located at Pontrelli, have been found fossilized footprints of dinosaurs in a mass limestone.
These are hundreds of prints of varying sizes from at least 5 different species of dinosaurs are herbivores that carnivores.
The fossil imprints, ie the tracks left by moving animals and preserved in the sediments of the earth’s crust, can help to deduce the gait and behavioral characteristics of a given species.
The shadow, properly interpreted, can help us to understand, for example, whether the animals that were left living in the flock or whether they were lonely, treating her as the offspring, and so forth.
Trace fossils of the genus, there are worldwide, but the excellent quality of the state of preservation, the large number and high biodiversity of the site make it unique in the world Altamura.
The discovery is unique not only for the quantity and quality of the fingerprints, but also because it may be amended paleogeografia the Cretaceous of the Mediterranean.