The Italian island Sardinia incorporates treasures and superior landscapes, nonetheless is moreover ample with background. A present superb scientific exploration is proof of this.
During the recording of a docudrama on the realm’s geomorphological panorama, researchers situated important palaeontological proof within the countryside round Baunei, in Ogliastra: fossil traces bearing witness the visibility of dinosaurs in Sardinia.
The exploration was made by a scientific group made up of academics Antonio Assorgia, Sergio Ginesu and Stefania Sias, earlier audio system on the Universities of Sassari and Cagliari.
Preserved in rocks going again to the Jurassic period, the impacts come from a theropod dinosaur by no means ever previously reported in Sardinia.
Thanks to the superb exploration, it has really been possible to rebuild the pet’s look and the setting through which it lived. The dinosaur was a biped from the Middle Jurassic period, round 165 million years again, and lived alongside stretches of shoreline with sandy and sloppy particles, regular of marshy and tidal places. This was mentioned by specialists at an interview on Friday.
The tough floor space the place the dinosaur’s impacts have been situated moreover given proof of the visibility of varied different coeval varieties. This is consequently the preliminary proof of the visibility of dinosaurs within the Mesozoic period in Sardinia.
Stefania Sias, the preliminary to watch these tracks, claimed the dinosaur discovered was referred to as ‘Bibi’, and will surely be a ladies sampling, though we have to wait on scientific proof to find out 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 on the University of Sassari, Marco Zedda, speaking on the seminar and clarifying simply how from merely an influence, one can rebuild the pet that left it.
According to Francesco Ginesu, Sole Director of the MGB agency and accountable for the manufacturing of the docudrama, this can be a phenomenal exploration, and arised almost by coincidence. “As often happens in science, it has the power to radically change what we thought we knew,” claimed Ginesu, together with 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.”
