More than 300 million years prior, a progression of four-legged, long-tail land and water proficient animals, the extent of a local feline, meandered along the edge of an old tidal pond, leaving the diagrams of their fingers engraved on the new mud. There were substantial, grown-up, and other little, more youthful, every one of them devoted to hasten along that shore in a few headings. In spite of their advances in mind material, undoubtedly those creatures - creatures regular to reptiles and vertebrates never came to trust that, in a far off day, a few surprised bipeds would make a decent attempt to remove, recoup, and concentrate those fossilized impressions.
"It's the revelation of my life. What's more, the best paleontological disclosure at any point made in Leon. " Whoever says it comprehends what truly matters to him. It is José Vicente Casado, known worldwide not just to supply exhibition halls on both sides of the Atlantic with copies of dinosaurs - some huge - yet to be a specialist recoverer, restorer and disseminator of fossils and shooting stars. Hitched clarifies that this extraordinary plaque with around 80 impressions of these creatures - called the purported "nemonospóndilos" - was really found by José Luis Fuertes in the rubble of a mine situated amongst Babia and Laciana, and what he recouped and reestablished to the Foundation Culture Minera, which incorporates establishments, for example, the Diputación and the University of León.
With eyes splendid with the enthusiasm and eagerness that portrays this inexhaustible warrior of the palaeontological and stellar patrimony, Jose Vicente Casado remarks that the thick woods that encompassed the tidal pond where the temnospóndilos strolled wound up framing the coal layers normal for the bowls Leonesas "Here we have the creatures that started to colonize the land and to inhale air, the principal tetrapods that strolled on four appendages, these are additionally our progenitors", he said when talking about little animals as a size however of fundamental significance - Everything that came after-the amount they 'got'. "Follows can illuminate us of numerous things, and now and again they are considerably more expressive than bones," said Casado, and specified subtle elements, for example, weight, motion and even body temperature, which can be known because of the examination of the shape , Layout and tread profundity.
The specialist, craftsman and disseminator, one of the guardians of the show Fossils. The inception of the coal that can be found in the Museum of the Mining of Sabero until the finish of August, contextualized the significance of the finding in inspecting that dinosaurs on which the Museum of the Jurassic of Asturias, for instance, rotates "go back somewhere in the range of 140 million years, while these prints would have been printed in the vicinity of 300 and 340 million years prior. " A successive speaker and member in various exercises of dissemination and training, José Vicente Casado guarantees that, to the extent he knows, there is no other place or exhibition hall on the planet such remnants as these. "Hints of temnospóndilos, obviously, have been found, yet not all that some, together, of this artifact". "They are, today, the most established of Leon," said the pro.