by In an Australian school, a merger with petrified dinosaur footprints was found on a dust dust, the scientists said on Wednesday.
The stone remained largely unnoticed for 20 years until the school in Queensland’s rural banana shire asked the paleontologist Anthony Romilio to examine a group of three-toe marks.
Romilio said the record was stamped with dozens of petrified footprints from the early Jura period about 200 million years ago.
It showed “one of the highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints”, which was ever documented in Australia, he said.
“It is an unprecedented snapshot of dinosaur frequency, movement and behavior from a time when no petrified dinosaur bones were found in Australia,” said Romilio from the University of Queensland.
“Essential fossils like this can sit unnoticed for years, even within sight.
“It is unbelievable to believe that a piece of history that rested in a schoolyard all the time.”
Coal -lying pitches the plate in 2002 and noticed the unusual footprints to notice that they gave them a school in the small town of Biloela, where it was finally exhibited in the foyer.
The rock sat there until the researchers started asking for dinosaur fossils in the area.
“Some of the teachers thought that this was more of a replica than a reality,” said Romilio.
“Everyone didn’t quite notice what they actually had.
“They definitely knew that it was a dinosaur footprint. But not the level of detail in which a researcher like me would go into.”
– ‘My jaw dropped’ – – –
According to Romilio, 66 separate track impressions were found on the plate, which had a surface of less than one square meter.
They belonged to a dinosaurs named Anomoepus Scambu
– A small and chunky herbivore that went on two legs, he said.
“Fossilized footprints, although they are the most common dinosaur fossils, are thrown aside by many researchers.
“You don’t have the sex appeal of a petrified bone.
“The vast majority of dinosaur fossils that are not found by paleontologists. They are actually found by people on site.”
Romilios hunting for fossils in the region also discovered a two tons of ton boulders, which marked the entrance to a parking lot for carbon ducts.
“As I drive to the parking lot, I see one of these parking spaces to prevent cars from driving on the lawn.
“And it has a clear dinosaur fossil. My jaw fell when I saw it.”
Romilio and a team of researchers published their results in peer review journal Historical Biology.
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