A 4-year-old girl in the United Kingdom and her Family walking on Barry beach in Wales (Barry beach), in a rock found 220 million years ago fossilized dinosaur footprints, let paleontologists shocked straight: “This is the most well-preserved specimen ever found on the beach.”
A few days ago, 4-year-old girl Lily Wilder (Lily Wilder) with her father Richard (Richard), mother Sally (Sally) together in Bendricks (Bendricks) Barry Beach walk, Wilder suddenly found an animal footprint on the rock, and shouted to her father to come and see. Richard looked at it and took a picture of the footprint with his cell phone.
After returning Home, the more Wilder and his wife looked at the photo, the more they felt the footprint was unusual. Sally said she knew that fossilized dinosaur footprints had been found on that coast, but I wasn’t sure what my daughter had found was a real dinosaur footprint, so I uploaded the photo to a social networking site, not expecting it to attract the attention of netizens immediately.
Experts from the National Museum ofWales, Cardiff, contacted the Wilder family. On Wednesday (January 27), the museum obtained a sample of the dinosaur footprint from the rock. The National Museum of Cardiff is part of the National Museum of Wales, located in Cardiff, Wales.
The National Museum said the fossilized dinosaur footprint will be excavated for preservation as soon as possible after obtaining permission from Natural Resources Wales (NRW).
The dinosaur footprints found by the Wilder girls are not yet able to determine what kind of dinosaur, but according to the length of the fossil footprints about 10 centimeters to estimate, may be 75 centimeters tall small dinosaurs left by.
This dinosaur footprint is quite well preserved, and clearly visible, so that the National Museum of Wells paleontology in charge of Ms. Howells (Cindy Howells) exclaimed: “This is the best sample ever found on the beach!”
Howells said the fossilized dinosaur footprint, which is 220 million years old, is one of the best-preserved examples in the UK and will help paleontologists understand more about the actual structure of early dinosaur feet.
Ben Evans, a specialist at the British Institute for Geological Conservation, called the dinosaur footprint “an amazing specimen.
He said, “This beach is a place of special scientific interest and we encourage people to visit and use it responsibly, but do not allow the collection of rocks, minerals and fossils from this site.”
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