Storm Ciara: 130 million-year-old dinosaur footprint uncovered on Isle of Wight

A 130-million-year-old disaur footprint was reportedly discovered on Island of Wight as Storm Ciara hit United Kingdom last week. According to reports, footprint was of a three-toed disaur and was preserved in a sheet of clay. It was discovered on February 12 by people belonging to Wight Coast Fossils group.

Wight Coast Fossils group discover 130-million-year-old disaur footprint

group mentioned discovery on ir Facebook handle wherein y explained fossil's intricate details.

" Atlantic Ocean is taking aim at us this week, with storms, high winds and lashing rain! But all this wear is revealing traces of vanished worlds along our coastline! Shifting sands at Sandown Bay revealed this beautiful 130 million-year-old disaur track yesterday, preserved in brightly coloured floodplain clays of Wessex Formation!"

" pointed toes of this track may indicate a large ropod, perhaps Neovenator or spisaur Baryonyx. mottled clays footprint is preserved in are a paleosol, an ancient soil horizon, representing an area of boggy overbank marshland that seasonally dried and flooded."

"Our track maker was crossing this environment 130 million years ago, heing southwest in what is w Sandown Bay, leaving se huge tracks in boggy soil. Behind animal lay a range of low forested hills, while ahe lay a flat floodplain landscape dotted with floodplain forests, river channels, and herds of herbivorous disaurs."

"Clay footprints such as se can be relatively common in our Wessex Formation exposures, but do t hold up to forces of erosion for long. Sly y will typically disappear in a couple of days or weeks, as tide wears down soft clays of Wessex Formation, an awesome but fleeting glimpse of a time long gone, lying in plain sight on our coastline!"

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