(ANSA) – ROME, 02 JAN – Footprints discovered in 2020 on a beach in South Wales belonged to an ancient ancestor of a dinosaur, who lived over 200 million years ago: this is what paleontologists of the Natural History Museum in London believe, according to which footprints date back to the Triassic period and were left by one of the first sauropods or by a relative of his.
“We know that the first sauropods lived in Britain at the time, as bones of Camelotia, a very old sauropod, were found in Somerset in rocks dating from the same period,” commented Susannah Maidment, a paleontologist at the museum. “We don’t know if this species made these footprints, but it’s another clue that suggests something like this could have created them,” he added.
Maidment and a colleague of his, Paul Barrett, received images of the footprints – discovered on Penarth Beach – from an amateur paleontologist in 2020 and were skeptical at first.
“We get a lot of requests from the public for things that might be footprints, but many are geological features that can easily be mistaken for footprints,” explained Maidment. However, in this case the scientists decided to do extensive research after establishing that those images were indeed prehistoric footprints.
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