Excavation work at Camp dels Ninots (Girona) has made it attainable to get better for the primary time the entire skeleton of a 3.1-million-year-old fowl. An unprecedented discovering, as remoted stays have been recovered thus far.
The stays have been positioned on stage 10 of the work cove positioned within the Ca n’Argilera sector. It is a big aquatic fowl that, as a result of “giant dimensions” and “robustness” of its extremities, could be one meter tall and weigh about 5-8 kg.
The skeleton is in a wonderful state of preservation and with all of the bones within the place the place they belong. After its identification, the work crew of the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution has extracted the stays to be transferred to the restoration laboratory, as it’s a very fragile materials and can’t be uncovered to the weather.
Excavation work at Camp dels NinotsMaria D. Guillen
The Caldes de Malavella City Council has highlighted the singular discovering, since “there are only a few websites which have supplied stays of birds from this chronology within the European fossil file and since they supply a number of paleoenvironmental data.”
It continues to be not attainable to know if it’s a migratory fowl or one which lived completely on this historic lake. The researchers rely on having the ability to extract information concerning their ecology and feeding, in addition to perform biomechanical and aerodynamic research on the actions of their wings.
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The totally different traces of analysis carried out have revealed a steady sedimentary sequence, very nicely preserved and with a excessive diploma of temporal decision, important for understanding the climatic and panorama evolution of the European continent on the finish of the Pliocene.
This is a interval that’s little identified and represented within the fossil file, however extraordinarily attention-grabbing, because it corresponds to the second instantly earlier than the glacial and interglacial dynamics that characterize the present Mediterranean local weather.
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