\u0022The entire skeleton was there,\u0022 said the school teacher in a recent interview.
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She laughingly dismissed the idea at first, but said her mother-in-law was the first to see a photo of her discovery.The Halifax-based geologist and paleontologist said the fossil likely dates back about 300 million years to the end of the Coal Age, or Carboniferous era, and into the Permian period, about 80 million years before the first dinosaurs.Article content“This is obviously really important because these kinds of fossils are very rare from this time period.
Within 24 hours of Calder receiving the photo, a team had been assembled to retrieve the precious fossil. But they had just about five hours before high tide and sunset to get the specimen to safety. The rock was soft and crumbly, Calder said. The team simply dug around it and excavated the rock with the fossil embedded in it.The team then wrapped the rock in layers of newspaper, burlap and plastic before carrying it to the back of a Parks Canada truck, which took it to a paleontological repository about 60 kilometres away in Greenwich, P.E.I., for safekeeping.
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