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Other / Unknown · La Plata, Buenos Aires · 1922

ARG-1922ID case-ccdb34bcf6Added to map Oct 8, 2026
Creature
Other / Unknown
When
Dec 1922to the month
Where
La Plata, Buenos Airesto town level
Reports
4 documents1 independent

The account

Witness reports that Prof. Riggs described a dinosaur with line-root thigh bones unearthed by explorers of the La Plata Museum as having a body eighteen or twenty feet high.

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Details

Creature
Other / Unknown
Where
La Plata, Partido de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
mapped to town level · from the report's own words
When
Dec 1922
Account
Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by
1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map
Oct 8, 2026
Case id
case-ccdb34bcf6

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Source trail (2)

Down the rabbit hole → 4 documents, and how they connect

Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.

  1. Image 32 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), December 22, 1922
    Newspaper · 1922-12-22
    Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
  2. Image 7 of Casper daily tribune (Casper, Wyo.), December 22, 1922
    Newspaper · 1922-12-22

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