National Museum Wales and its new dinosaur

(Before It's News)

BRIDGEND, WALES (June 25, 2015) — On our last day in Wales, Tim had an errand at the National Museum Wales in Cardiff. We took the opportunity to visit their new dinosaur exhibit with the skeleton that had been collected from an outcrop we visited earlier in the week at Lavernock Point.

The exhibit is well done. The fossil skeleton represents the first carnivorous dinosaur found in Wales, and one of the earliest Jurassic dinosaurs found anywhere.

Here are some of the bones in lower Lias limestone.

This is a museum photo of the dinosaur collecting site. You may recognize the place from a previous post in this blog.

This is Cardiff City Hall. I loved the early 20th Century architecture in this Cardiff district, but we didn’t have time to explore. It is now off to southern England for more fieldwork.

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