Found dinosaur skin at the end of white chalk

Barcelona archaeologist was stunned when he suddenly found traces of prehistoric dinosaur fossil skin deposits in the late Cretaceous period.

Researchers from Universitat University Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) in collaboration with the Catala de Paleontologia Institute Miquel Crusafont (ICP) discovered in the Vallcebre area (Barcelona) a fossilized sediment suspected to be a child's skin. dinosaurs sank into the mud in this area at the end of the Cretaceous period .

This form of dinosaur skin fossil deposit is estimated to be about 66 million years ago. This is probably the last remnant of a dinosaur that has sunk into mud in this area tens of millions of years ago.

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" This dinosaur skin sediment has a scaly shape, covered with sand, throughout thousands of years later, all weathered into sedimentary sandstone and existed until now ." - UAB researcher Victor Fondevilla said in a statement.

In addition, this sedimentary dinosaur skin pattern is completely different from the dinosaur skins ever found in the Iberian Peninsula, Portugal and Asturias. The cause may come from the fact that these dinosaurs live in different periods of natural history.

A careful observation of the skin of the late Phan Phan Trang dinosaur shows that there are two layers of sedimentary skin , a layer about 20 cm wide, the remaining layer is only 5 cm wide and about 1.5 meters apart at the detection area Highlights with different special polygon touches. And this could be the skin of a large grass-eating dinosaur , possibly a titanosaurus , not a fierce carnivorous dinosaur.

This is not only the first evidence to describe traces of ancient European dinosaurs, but before that, five typical European dinosaur fossils were also discovered in Berguedà, pallars jussà, Alt Urgell and La Noguera, in Catalonia.

This finding has just been published in the International Geological Journal.

Huynh Dung ( According to Archeologynewsnetwork)