Dozens of dinosaurs found footprints found in Rock at Australian school

A 200 million year old slab of a slab of a 200 million year old has 66 footprints of individual dinosaurs in a school in Queensland, Australia.

The rock was gifted to the Bilola State High School with a colide mine, where it was found by coal miners. Although it was recognized as the footprints of many dinosaurs, no one realized its real importance until under the leadership of a team Anthony Romilio At the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, visited school.

“I could see that there were a lot of dinosaurs’ footprints,” Romilio says. “I knew it was a very important discovery.”

The slab was so heavy that it took many strong people to raise it in a situation where it could be studied. Romilio also had to remove the chewing gum which was trapped on the slab by the school students.

But it was not until he had inserted a 3D silicone model, took the photos and applied the filter to remove the colors that were detected from the entire range of search.

“As a peliontologist, I knew that I found a very important sample,” Romilio says.

Because no fossil bones were associated with footprints and no dinosaurs have ever been found in Australia since the early Jurassic era, it is impossible to know which species is actually saved from the tracks. However, they are assigned Enomopus scambus, An ichnospecies – a species known only by trace fossils – First found in America.

Depending on the size of a three-foot footprint, researchers estimate that dinosaurs would have hap heights between 20 and 76 cm and were running between 2 to 6 kilometers per hour.

“All those small animals who made footprints,” say Romilio. “They all seem to have two-foot plant-eating dinosaurs.”

When the dinosaurs moved to the site, the ground would have a silty surface under a shallow layer of water. Along with dinosaur print, there are holes in the slab, which was most likely to be buried by the wise.