The 200-million-year-old fossil of a marine reptile that was found by a dog

He Charmouth Heritage Coast Center is a charity located in England that not long ago announced that a 200-million-year-old fossil of a marine reptile is on display, which, curiously, was found by a dog. Do you want to know more about it? If you answered with a “Yeah”this note is for you.

The BBC reported that the remains are those of a plesiosaur, which was nicknamed Raffle after Tracey Barclay’s dog who discovered it in 2007. The animal first spotted the vertebrae in rocks near Lyme Regis, Dorset.

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It has taken experts 16 years to remove and restore the 3.2 m long (10.5 ft) skeleton. That work, without a doubt, paid off. The Charmouth Heritage Coast Center has indicated that the display of the marine reptile fossil is one of the few of its kind in the world.

Tracey Barclay, when talking about the discovery of her dog, specified that the plesiosaur was found in the “ammonite pavement”, which is bedrock on Monmouth beach, according to the aforementioned source. His dog, in that place, chose to scratch a dark-colored shape on a pale background.

When she paid attention to what she was doing, she noticed that there was a row of vertebrae, which is why she was excited. “I knew it was bone material right away, but I didn’t know if that was it”, he stressed. Chris Moore, a colleague of his, eventually recognized the bones as those of a plesiosaur, which was, according to the BBC, a long-necked, paddle-limbed reptile that lived in the Early Jurassic period.

“We spent nearly 15 years preparing the piece to reveal the bones, remove them from the rock, and finally mount them in three dimensions like this. It’s great, just amazing. It’s a great relief to have him here safely. When you put that much effort into something and you get the end result, it’s like, ‘Wow.’”the man maintained. It emerged that both Tracey and Chris lent the skeleton 70% to the Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre, which has shared viral photos of the fossil on its Twitter account. Facebook. One of the images is the one that appears at the top of the note.

Source: Elcomercio

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