MEXICO: A Welsh university student has discovered what could be the world’s oldest Jurassic dinosaur on a beach during an archaeological dig.
Palaeontology student Sam Davies’ academic career got an unexpected leg-up when he made the discovery while searching for fossils on Lavernock Beach, near Penarth.
Mr Davies, in his third year at the University of Portsmouth, said: “It was pure luck that I found it. It was just sitting on top of a slab of rock.
“It was obvious the fossil was fingers or toes, because there were three in a row, but the first thing that came to mind was that it was some sort of plesiosaur.”
Experts who examined the foot concluded that it belonged to the same theropod dinosaur whose skeleton had been uncovered after a cliff fall at the beach last year.
The dinosaur, which lived around 200-million years ago, was a mini version of T-Rex, probably only 19.6 inches tall, with blade-like, serrated teeth.
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