Dinosaur tracks discovered on Welsh beach date back to 200 million years ago: Report

A recent study conducted by a team of researchers from Liverpool John Moores University suggests that long-necked disaurs used to live in Sourn Wales. researchers came to conclusion after analysing 200-million-year-old footprints which were discovered on a beach near Penarth in 2020.

researchers believe that site may have been a garing place for sauropodomorphs - a long-necked, herbivorous disaur - based on quantity and variety of footprints, Daily Mail reported.  researchers produced 3D reconstructions of trace fossils, which date back to Late Triassic period around 237–201.3 million years ago so that y could be examined in greater detail. Sauropodomorphs existed between 231.4 and 66 million years ago.

'Fascinating dition to understanding of Triassic life in UK'

Natural History Museum Professor Paul Barrett was quoted by Daily Mail as saying that number of footprints suggests that location may have been a garing spot for disaurs. He also stated that se kinds of tracks are t very widespre around world, which makes it a fascinating dition to understanding of Triassic life in UK. He furr said that record of Triassic disaurs in this country is fairly limited, and whatever y can unearth from period tells what was going on at time. Talking about trace fossils, he said that trace fossils are those that capture features of an animal's behaviour or anatomy that skeleton does t.

Peter Falkingham of Liverpool John Moores University said that tracks originally appeared to be a bit confusing, and it took m quite a long time to kw if y were actually tracks or just holes in ground, Daily Mail reported. He continued by saying that when y examined it closely, it appeared that impressions overlapped in places, as would be expected if numerous animals were trampling ground and y also looked to occur in semi-regular spacing.

Tracks an example of Eosauropus

According to a report by ITV, team believes that tracks are an example of Eosauropus, which is t a name of a disaur but a sort of track presumed to have been me by a very early sauropod, or a close relative of a sauropod.  study's complete findings were published in journal Geological Magazine.

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