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Dinosaur
Skin Impression
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Trace
Maker
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A
prosauropod dinosaur
(probably Ammosaurus) |
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Trace
Name
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Otozoum
sp.
OT-O-ZOO-UM |
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Age
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Jurassic
Period
(About 205 million years old) |
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Where
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Two
Islands, Nova Scotia |
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Cast
or Mold
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Cast |
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Collector
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Eldon
George, Parrsboro Rock and Mineral Shop and Museum |
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A
spectacular find! There are two foot prints from a large, plant-eating
dinosaur and an impression of it's skin. If we found the impression
of the skin all by it's lonesome, we probably wouldn't have
guessed what it was. The fact that there are two foot prints
made us look closer at the rock. Nobody knows what colour dinosaurs
were - skin pigments just don't last. The texture of the skin
does tell that dinosaurs had very tough skin much like modern-day
reptiles. |
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