The fossil is 75 centimeters tall, according to a paleontologist, more than 300 million years old and about 1.9 and 2.7 meters long.
Arthropleur was a family of the largest lizards that ever lived on Earth. To this day, very little has been said about them. According to him, they fed on nuts, seeds or other plant foods, they also hunted the first tynocci, which, as descendants of fish, inhabited the cows some 390 million years ago.
sten petrified Arthropleur’s footprint. This 7.1 cm fossil was found in 1942. (May 25, 2013)
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This finding was a real coincidence. The people of Northumberland are known for their castles and scenarios, no one is looking for fossils there. But the boulder fell and broke, and the discovery was discovered by geologist Neil Davies of Cambridge University.
The fossil is so huge that we took it up to the test room, he added.
The inhabitants lived in the Carboniferous in the Proterozoic geological period, about 326 million years ago. It was more than 100 million years before the first dinosaurs appeared on Earth.
At the time these creatures lived, England was close to the Pangea continent and Lee near the equator. Mammals and reptiles did not exist at that time, and these lizards were probably the largest creatures on the planet at the time.
From the latest finding, the remains of an individual Arthropleur show that his outer skeleton (exoskeleton) was about 55 centimeters wide and consisted of about a dozen segments, each of which had two or three legs. In total, the villa invites about fifty kilograms.
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