In 1925, the German paleontologist Dr. Bruno von Freyberg, University of Halle-Wittenberg, visited the site and ended up influencing Vicentino Prestes de Almeida, a surveyor who would learn how to collect fossils.

In 1910, Vincentino, was born in Chiniquá, when the site was then a district of Santa Maria, became self-taught on the subject and their findings had great influence at the coming of Von Huene for the region.

They visited the site for two months, then had to travel 70 kilometers to Santa Maria taking tons of fossils, in carts drawn by oxen.

The place is abandoned, no signs, no panels telling the history of the site, without replication of the animals found there and no statues of the researchers.

The site is known internationally for its outstanding contributions and is in a rural area on the edge of the highway BR-287, with great handling car.