The Italian island Sardinia contains treasures and awesome landscapes, however is additionally abundant with background. A current amazing clinical exploration is evidence of this.
During the recording of a docudrama on the area’s geomorphological landscape, researchers located vital palaeontological proof in the countryside around Baunei, in Ogliastra: fossil traces bearing witness the visibility of dinosaurs in Sardinia.
The exploration was made by a clinical group made up of teachers Antonio Assorgia, Sergio Ginesu and Stefania Sias, previous speakers at the Universities of Sassari and Cagliari.
Preserved in rocks going back to the Jurassic duration, the impacts come from a theropod dinosaur never ever formerly reported in Sardinia.
Thanks to the amazing exploration, it has actually been feasible to rebuild the pet’s look and the setting in which it lived. The dinosaur was a biped from the Middle Jurassic duration, around 165 million years back, and lived along stretches of shoreline with sandy and sloppy debris, normal of marshy and tidal locations. This was discussed by specialists at an interview on Friday.
The rough surface area where the dinosaur’s impacts were located additionally given proof of the visibility of various other coeval varieties. This is as a result the initial proof of the visibility of dinosaurs in the Mesozoic duration in Sardinia.
Stefania Sias, the initial to observe those tracks, claimed the dinosaur found was called ‘Bibi’, and would certainly be a women sampling, although we need to wait on clinical proof to determine this.
“The footprints speak to us and tell us how things were 165 million years ago, the one from Baunei was probably a herbivore, given the lack of claws, and was a biped about 120 160 centimetres long,” claimed palaeontologist and speaker at the University of Sassari, Marco Zedda, talking at the seminar and clarifying just how from simply an impact, one can rebuild the pet that left it.
According to Francesco Ginesu, Sole Director of the MGB firm and in charge of the manufacturing of the docudrama, this is a phenomenal exploration, and arised nearly by coincidence. “As often happens in science, it has the power to radically change what we thought we knew,” claimed Ginesu, including that “those footprints, spotted while working on a popularised product, turned out to be a finding of enormous scientific value. It is not just one more piece of data: it is direct evidence of the presence of dinosaurs in an area that until now had not yielded such clear evidence.”
