{"id":26962,"date":"2021-01-29T22:40:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T22:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=26962"},"modified":"2021-01-30T00:07:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T00:07:22","slug":"four-year-old-girl-discovers-dinosaur-footprint-on-barry-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/four-year-old-girl-discovers-dinosaur-footprint-on-barry-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-year-old girl discovers dinosaur footprint on Barry beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The four year old and her family have found the most well-preserved dinosaur footprint near Barry which is more than 220 million years old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lily and her mum Sally Wilder were on a family walk at Bendricks Bay on the beach when the prints were noticed by Lilly Wilder a four year old girl who has a curious instinct for dinosaur prints and rocks. Her mother describes how she came across it “She pointed to a rock and turned to her dad and told him to look at the print in the stone.” But, her dad did not think much of it until they got home and realised how remarkably similar it looked to a dinosaur footprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Museum of Cymru and Archaeology Cymru jointly, were made aware of the find and confirmed it was indeed a footprint from a crocodile type dinosaur called a Grallator. This type of animal usually would leave a three toed print and we’re common in Europe millions of years ago. Palaeontologist Cindy Howells who works at The National museum says ” Although footprints like this are not uncommon, this is one of the best finds in Wales” and that she has never seen one so clear and well defined. She mentioned “This type of footprint is rare because of its age and how it was positioned on a shallow area of mud which made it not squelch out giving it a perfect shape.” It has been suggested a second print was found but was not as defined as this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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