Nearly 30 years ago a retired farmer found a salamander-like prehistoric amphibian in a sandstone block. It hasn’t been formally identified – until now.
A fossil discovered in a retaining wall by a retired chicken farmer has been formally identified.The two-metre creature looked like a salamander but probably acted more like a crocodile.He called itA spectacular fossil discovered by a retired chicken farmer has been identified by palaeontologists as a new type of Triassic amphibian that stalked the freshwater streams of the Sydney basin 240 million years ago.
An ongoing question, however, remained about the fossil, which came to lie in a climate-controlled room at the Australian Museum for a quarter of a century: what exactly was this creature immortalised in sandstone? “It’s incredibly rare worldwide to find what we call an articulated skeleton, when the head and the body are both attached,” Hart said. “An articulated skeleton plus soft tissue remains is almost, like, unheard of.”
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