After finding a 235-million-year-old tooth: “I am humble and modest”
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- Gregor Koželj, an environmental ranger and amateur researcher, found a fossil tooth during a walk.
- The tooth is estimated to be 235 million years old and may have belonged to a placodont, a marine reptile.
- The discovery could improve understanding of placodont evolution, which remains poorly known.
During a walk, Gregor Koželj, an environmental ranger with the Idrija Tourism Board and an amateur researcher, came across a 235-million-year-old tooth. The fossil may have belonged to a placodont and could help clarify the poorly understood development of the marine reptiles.
The discovery surprised even the article’s author, who had never heard of placodonts before. The news raised an immediate question: how could a creature that lived in the ocean be connected to the area now covered by the Upper Idrijca Landscape Park?
Koželj is described as one of the most curious minds the author knows. The fossil tooth was found during an ordinary walk, but its possible importance reaches back to a period when the region was covered by the sea.
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Originally published by Delo in Slovenian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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