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Originally posted by w3nd1g0
Just found another interesting read... this dinosaur "Ashdown Maniraptoran" was discovered by a budding amature fossil hunter... but then left in a draw for 2yrs before being rediscovered!
I spose you wouldnt expect to leave a t-rex skeleton lying around without it going unoticed lol
Your thoughts?
Source
In contrast to the Barremian Wessex Formation on the Isle of Wight, the remains of small theropods are rare in the Berriasian–Valanginian Hastings Group of the English mainland. Both units are part of the dinosaur-rich Wealden Supergroup (Berriasian–Aptian) of southern Britain. Here we report the cervical vertebra of a small dinosaur from the Pevensey Pit at Ashdown Brickworks, a site located northwest of Bexhill, East Sussex. The pit yields a rich assemblage of vertebrate fossils from the Valanginian Wadhurst Clay Formation of the Hastings Group. The new specimen, a near-complete but water-worn posterior cervical vertebra, is tiny (total centrum length = 7.1 mm) but evidently from an adult theropod. Its large hypapophysis, X-shaped neural arch and amphicoelous centrum suggest referral to Maniraptora, and the subparallel anterior and posterior articular surfaces imply that it does not belong to a deinonychosaur. The X-shaped neural arch recalls a similar condition seen in oviraptorosaurs while the high neural canal/articular surface ratio (0.70) is bird-like. The specimen is significant in representing the first maniraptoran to be reported from the Hastings Group but is otherwise indeterminate. By comparing the specimen to better known maniraptorans and estimating the proportions of the animal to which it belongs, we suggest that the total skeletal length of this maniraptoran was somewhere between 16 and 40 cm. It may therefore have been among the smallest of known Mesozoic dinosaurs
Originally posted by SLAYER69
I bet dollars to doughnuts that there are tons of stuff hidden away at locations like the Smithsonian and other large museums in their basements that were brought in years [if not decades and in some case hundreds of years] previously that have yet to either be opened and or identified/explained.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by Byrd
I've been kicking that idea around for a while. I love the topic. It has always fascinated me. I do have a few friends in the field.